Al-Maqrīzī's Al-Ḫabar ʿan Al-Basar

Vol. V, Section 6: The Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, and Goths
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-41289-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Arabisch, Band 7, 434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 864 g

Reihe: Bibliotheca Maqriziana

Autoren/Hrsg.

Penelas, Mayte

Weitere Mitwirkende

Penelas, Mayte

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Plates and Tables
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1 Study of the Arab Thieves

1 Outlaw Literature

2 “Arab Thieves”: Establishing a Category
2.1 ?u?luk/?a?alik
2.2 Fatik/Futtak
2.3 Li??/Lu?u?
2.4 The Runners
2.5 The Arab Ravens
2.6 Lions and Wolves
2.7 Thievery Semantics: Conclusions

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-Maqrizi and His Lu?u? al-?Arab

4 Contemporary Outlaws: Criminality in al-Maqrizi’s Own World

5 Al-Maqrizi’s Manuscript: Its Conceptual, Narrative and Physical Structure
5.1 The Thieves
5.2 Narrative Structure
5.3 The Book

6 The Sources
6.1 Dictionaries and the List of ‘Arab Thieves’
6.2 Al-Maqrizi’s Sources: Overview
6.3 Al-Maqrizi’s Copying Style: Case Studies
6.4 Al-Maqrizi and Outlaw Poetry: Specialised Collections
6.5 Sources: Conclusions

7 Concluding Remarks

Plates

Part 2 Critical Edition and Translation

The Holograph

The Translation

Abbreviations and Symbols

Text and Translation of al-Maqrizi’s al-?abar ?an al-ba?ar, vol. V, Sections 1–2: the Arab Thieves

Section on the Arabs’ Religions before Islam

Section on the Arab Hussies

Section on the Arab Thieves
?Amr of the Dog
Ta?abba?a Šarran
Al-Šanfará
Al-Sulayk b. al-Sulakah al-Sa?di
Al-Muntašir
Awfá b. Ma?ar al-Mazini
?Amr b. Barraqah
Al-U?aymir
Ni?am
Yazid

Bibliography
List of Quoted Manuscripts
Index of Verses
Index of Names (People and Places)
Index of Quoted Titles in al-?abar ?an al-bašar
Index of Sources in al-?abar ?an 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

Über Autor(innen)

Mayte Penelas, Ph.D. (1998), Autónoma University, Madrid, is Tenured Scientist and current director of EEA, CSIC. She edited Kitab Hurushiyush, and published articles on this text, and on many other Arabic texts produced by the Christians of al-Andalus, including those that make up MS Raqqada 2003/2.