Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre- And Early Islamic Periods Including the Names of Murdered Poets - Introduced, Edited, Translated from the Arabic, and Annotated

Prominent Murder Victims offers a richly annotated translation together with an improved Arabic text of the entertaining and informative murder stories from pre-Islamic times to the early 9th century, collected by the historian Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb (d. 860).

About the author

Geert Jan van Gelder (b. Amsterdam, 1947, PhD Leiden, 1982) was Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1998 until 2012. He published several monographs, editions, translations, and many articles on Classical Arabic Literature.

Product details

• Authors: Ibn &
• Assisted by: Geert Jan van Gelder (Editor), Geert Jan van Gelder (Translation)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2021
• EAN: 9789004446342
• ISBN: 978-90-04-44634-2
• No. of pages: 396
• Weight: 785 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous