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Author Webb, Peter

Title Al-Maqrīzī's Al-Ḫabar ʿan Al-Basar Vol. V, Sections 1-2: the Arab Thieves
Published Boston : BRILL, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (375 pages)
Series Bibliotheca Maqriziana Ser
Bibliotheca Maqriziana Ser
Contents Intro; ‎Contents; ‎Plates and Tables; ‎Plates; ‎Tables; ‎Abbreviations; ‎Acknowledgements; ‎Introduction; ‎Part 1. Study of the Arab Thieves; ‎Chapter 1. Outlaw Literature; ‎Chapter 2. 'Arab Thieves': Establishing a Category; ‎2.1. Ṣuʿlūk/Ṣaʿālīk; ‎2.2. Fātik/Futtāk; ‎2.3. Liṣṣ/Luṣūṣ; ‎2.4. The Runners; ‎2.5. The Arab Ravens; ‎2.6. Lions and Wolves; ‎2.7. Thievery Semantics: Conclusions; ‎Chapter 3. Thieves and Arab History; ‎3.1. Outlaws and Arabness in the Third/Ninth Century; ‎3.2. Outlaws and Arabness in the Fourth/Tenth Century; ‎3.3. The Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras
‎3.4. Al-Maqrīzī and His Luṣūṣ al-ʿArab‎Chapter 4. Contemporary Outlaws: Criminality in al-Maqrīzī's Own World; ‎Chapter 5. Al-Maqrīzī's Manuscript: Its Conceptual, Narrative and Physical Structure; ‎5.1. The Thieves; ‎5.2. Narrative Structure; ‎5.2.1. Multiple Outlaws under One Name: ʿAmr of the Dog; ‎5.2.2. Anecdote Arrangement and Outlaw Personae Construction: al-Šanfará; ‎5.2.3. ʿAmr ibn Barrāqah and Concluding Impressions; ‎5.3. The Book; ‎Chapter 6. The Sources; ‎6.1. Dictionaries and the List of 'Arab Thieves'; ‎6.2. Al-Maqrīzī's Sources: Overview
‎Al-Sulayk b. al-Sulakah al-Saʿdī‎Al-Muntašir; ‎Awfá b. Maṭar al-Māzinī; ‎ʿAmr b. Barrāqah; ‎Al-Uḥaymir; ‎Niẓām; ‎Yazīd; ‎Bibliography; ‎Primary Sources; ‎Studies; ‎List of Quoted Manuscripts; ‎Index of Verses; ‎Index of Names (People and Places); ‎Index of Quoted Titles in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar; ‎Index of Sources in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar; ‎Index of Glosses; ‎Index of Technical Terms; ‎Facsimile of MS Fatih 4340 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), fols. Ia-b, 1a-3b, 4*a-b, 4a-9b, 10*a-b, 10a-15b; ‎Bibliotheca Maqriziana Titles Published; ‎Opera minora; ‎Opera maiora
Notes ‎A. al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar
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Subject Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442. Khabar ʻan al-bashar fī ansāb al-ʻArab wa-nasab Sayyid al-Bashar.
Outlaws -- Arabian Peninsula -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
Arabic literature -- To 622 -- History and criticism
Outlaws in literature.
Tales -- Arabian Peninsula -- History and criticism
Arabic literature -- 1258-1800 -- History and criticism
Arabic literature.
Historiography.
Outlaws.
Outlaws in literature.
Tales.
SUBJECT Arabian Peninsula -- History -- To 622 -- Early works to 1800
Arabian Peninsula -- Historiography
Subject Arabian Peninsula.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004386952
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