The Arab thieves

Author(s)

• Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī
• Webb, Peter

Bibliographic Information

The Arab thieves

（Bibliotheca Maqriziana, v. 6 . Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar ; v. 5, sections 1-2）

Brill, c2019

critical ed. / annotated translation and study by Peter Webb

Other Title

خبر عن البشر في أنساب العرب ونسب سيد البشر

Uniform Title

Khabar ʻan al-bashar fī ansāb al-ʻArab wa-nasab Sayyid al-Bashar

Note

In English and Arabic

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-314) and index

"Opera Maiora"--on added t.p.

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In The Arab Thieves, Peter Webb critically explores the classic tales of pre-Islamic Arabian outlaws in Arabic Literature. A group of Arabian camel-rustlers became celebrated figures in Muslim memories of pre-Islam, and much poetry ascribed to them and stories about their escapades grew into an outlaw tradition cited across Arabic literature. The ninth/fifteenth-century Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi arranged biographies of ten outlaws into a chapter on 'Arab Thieves' in his wide-ranging history of the world before Muhammad. This volume presents the first critical edition of al-Maqrizi's text with a fully annotated English translation, alongside a detailed study that interrogates the outlaw lore to uncover the ways in which Arabic writers constructed outlaw identities and how al-Maqrizi used the tales to communicate his vision of pre-Islam. Via an exhaustive survey of early Arabic sources about the outlaws and comparative readings with outlaw traditions in other world literatures, The Arab Thieves reveals how Arabic literature crafted lurid narratives about criminality and employed them to tell ancient Arab history.

Table of Contents

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 Su'luk/Sa'alik 2.2 Fatik/Futtak 2.3 Liss/Lusus 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 Lusus 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-Habar 'an al-basar, 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'abbata Sarran Al-Sanfara Al-Sulayk b. al-Sulakah al-Sa'di Al-Muntasir Awfa b. Matar al-Mazini 'Amr b. Barraqah Al-Uhaymir Nizam Yazid Bibliography List of Quoted Manuscripts Index of Verses Index of Names (People and Places) Index of Quoted Titles in al-Habar 'an al-basar Index of Sources in al-Habar 'an al-basar Index of Glosses Index of Technical Terms Facsimile of MS Fatih 4340 (Istanbul, Suleymaniye Kutuphanesi), fols. Ia-b, 1a-3b, 4*a-b, 4a-9b, 10*a-b, 10a-15b

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Details

• NCID: BC04621915
• ISBN:
  • 9789004386945
• LCCN: 2019002243
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engara
• Original Language Code: ara
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 362 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS231
  • DC23 : 892.7/09001
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Arabian Peninsula -- History -- To 622 -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Outlaws -- Arabian Peninsula -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Arabic literature -- To 622 -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Outlaws in literature
  • LCSH : Tales -- Arabian Peninsula -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442. Khabar ʻan al-bashar fī ansāb al-ʻArab wa-nasab Sayyid al-Bashar
  • LCSH : Arabic literature -- 1258-1800 -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Arabian Peninsula -- Historiography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB17743667