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Names: Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, -860, author. | Gelder, G. J. H. van, editor. | Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, -860. Asmāʼ al-mughtālīn.
Title: Prominent murder victims of the pre- and early Islamic periods including the names of murdered poets / by Muḥammad Ibn Ḥabīb (d. AH 245/AD 860) ; introduced, edited, translated from the Arabic, and annotated by Geert Jan van Gelder.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021. | Series: Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; 150 | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. | Bilingual Arabic edition of Asmāʼ al-mughtālīn with English translation.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020052769 (print) | LCCN 2020052770 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004446342 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004446359 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Islamic Empire–Biography–Early works to 1800. | Murder victims–Islamic Empire–Biography–Early works to 1800. | Poets, Arab–Islamic Empire–Biography–Early works to 1800.
Classification: LCC DS38.4.A2 M83513 2021 (print) | LCC DS38.4.A2 (ebook) | DDC 362.88/293092256–dc23
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