Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar ʿan al-basar - Volume IV, Section 2: The Idols of the Arabs

The chapter about idol worship in Maqrīzī's Universal History includes excerpts from books that are no longer extant. They make it harder to argue against the import or even the very existence of pre-Islamic idol worship.

About the author

Michael Lecker, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studies the economic and social history of early Islam, with an emphasis on the life of the Prophet Muḥammad and the Jews of the Arabian Peninsula.

Yaara Perlman is a PhD candidate at Princeton University, where she focuses on early Islamic history. In her dissertation, she seeks to extract historical details from genealogical evidence. She holds BA and MA degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Lecker
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2022
• EAN: 9789004499836
• ISBN: 978-90-04-49983-6
• No. of pages: 394
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 721 g
• Series: Bibliotheca Maqriziana
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous