Al-Maqrīzī's Al-Ḫabar ʿan Al-Basar

Vol. V, Sections 1-2: The Arab Thieves
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-38694-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Arabisch, Band 6, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Bibliotheca Maqriziana

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Webb, Peter

Weitere Mitwirkende

Webb, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

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)

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).