Al-Maqrīzī's Al-Ḫabar ʿan Al-Basar

The Arab Thieves examines the development of Arabic outlaw literature via a critical edition and comparative study of ten outlaw biographies compiled by the ninth/fifteenth-century Egyptian historian al-Maqrīzī.

About the author

Peter Webb, Ph.D. SOAS, University of London, is University Lecturer in Arabic Literature and Culture at Leiden University. A specialist on Arabic literature about the Arabs and pre-Islamic Arabia, his publications include Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam (Edinburgh, 2016).

Product details

• Assisted by: Peter Webb (Editor), Peter Webb (Translation)
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2019
• EAN: 9789004386945
• ISBN: 978-90-04-38694-5
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Bibliotheca Maqriziana
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous