Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar: Volume IV, Section 2: The Idols of the Arabs

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Author:
Michael Lecker
Translator:
Yaara Perlman
The chapter about idols in Maqrīzī’s universal history is made of excerpts from earlier books, some of which are no longer extant. Excerpts from the latter category naturally form the most exciting aspect of this text. Its appearance comes at a time when certain scholars doubt the import or even the very existence of pre-Islamic idol worship. Early Islamic literature often focuses on the contemporaries of the Prophet Muḥammad whose stories were a source of pride for their offspring. The crucial moment in one’s life was the conversion, and it is in the context of conversion that we learn about idol worship.
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Michael Lecker, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studies the economic and social history of early Islam, with an emphasis on the life of the Prophet Muḥammad and the Jews of the Arabian Peninsula.
Yaara Perlman is a PhD candidate at Princeton University, where she focuses on early Islamic history. In her dissertation, she seeks to extract historical details from genealogical evidence. She holds BA and MA degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Preface
List of Plates
Abbreviations

Introduction
 1 Idols in Conversion Reports
 2 Mecca
 3 Medina (Yaṯrib) (§ 110–117)
 4 Idols and Treasuries

Notes on the Edition and the Translation

Plates

Abbreviations and Symbols

Critical Edition and Translation of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, vol. IV, Section 2: The Idols of the Arabs



Section on the Idols of the Arabs [Their aṣnām and awṯān]
 Wadd
 Suwāʿ
 Yaġūṯ
 Yaʿūq
 Nasr
 Hubal
 Isāf and Nāʾilah
 Saʿd
 ʿĀʾim
 Ḏū l-Šará
 Ruḍā
 Ḍamār
 Al-Ḥarīš, Ṣaḫr, Šams, al-Bihām, al-Qayn, Šafr, al-Ḥibs, Ġayyān, Isāf, Samūl, Ḥusā, al-Ṭimm, al-Samḥ
 Sāf, al-Dībāǧ, al-Zabr
 Huzzam
 Manāf
 Dawār
 Al-Fals
 Nuhm
 Al-Suʿayr
 Al-Uqayṣir
 Al-ʿUrayf
 Al-Ḥalāl
 Aḥmas
 ʿAmm Anas
 Al-Šurayr, Ġanm, Ḏū l-Kaffayni
 Al-Šāriq
 Marsūġ
 Al-Bayḍāʾ
 Kulāl
 Al-Ḫamīs
 Al-Mukaymin
 Yalīl
 Barkulān
 Qurs
 Al-ʿAbd
 Al-Ǧuṯā
 Farrāḍ
 Zaʿbal
 Al-Ǧalsad
 Ḥumām
 ʿAwḍ
 Saqb

Section on al-ǧibt and al-ṭāġūt
 Al-ʿUzzá
 Allāt
 Manāt
 Ḏū l-Kaʿabāt
 Ḏū l-Ḫalaṣah
 The Kaʿbah of Naǧrān
 Riyām
 Al-Qalīs/al-Qullays
 Al-Huǧam
 The account of Ḏāt Anwāṭ
 Anṣāb
 Ruḍā
 Buss
 Fire Temple
 Al-Saʿīdah

Bibliography
List of Quoted Manuscripts
Index of Qurʾānic Verses
Index of Verses of Poetry
Index of Prophetic Traditions
Index of Names (People and Places)
Index of Technical Terms
Index of Quoted Titles in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar
Index of Sources in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar
Index of Glosses
Facsimile of MS Fatih 4339 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), Fols. 30a–48b
All those interested in the Arabian Peninsula in the pre- and early Islamic period, and anyone interested in idol worship in general.
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Brill
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English
Pages:
393 pp. total (xii Rom, 381 pp. Arab)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004499867

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