{"product_id":"prominent-murder-victims-of-the-geert-jan-van-gelder-9789004759046","title":"Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre- And Early Islamic Periods Including the Names of Murdered Poets: Introduced, Edited, Translated from the Arabic,","description":"Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb (d. 860), a specialist in Arab history, tribal genealogy, and poetry, who lived in Baghdad, collected in his \u003ci\u003eProminent Murder Victims\u003c\/i\u003e many stories of murderers and murder victims from the legendary pre-Islamic past, such as how Bilqīs, the Arabic name for the Queen of Sheba, came to power, to the assassinations ordered by viziers or caliphs in the early Islamic centuries. A lengthy appendix deals with poets from pre- and early Islamic times who were killed. The stories are entertaining as well as informative. Strikingly, the author refrains from explicit moralising. The present book offers a richly annotated English translation together with an improved Arabic text and indexes of persons, places, and rhymes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geert Jan Van Gelder,Mu Ibn Ḥabīb (D Ah 245\/Ad 860)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9004759042\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004759046\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.82d","brand":"Geert Jan Van Gelder","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852680016127,"sku":"9789004759046","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/prominent-murder-victims-of-the-geert-jan-van-gelder-9789004759046","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}