Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar

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).

• List of Plates and TablesAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1 Study of the Arab Thieves1 Outlaw Literature2 “Arab Thieves”: Establishing a Category2.1 Ṣuʿlūk/Ṣaʿālīk2.2 Fātik/Futtāk2.3 Liṣṣ/Luṣūṣ2.4 The Runners2.5 The Arab Ravens2.6 Lions and Wolves2.7 Thievery Semantics: Conclusions3 Thieves and Arab History3.1 Outlaws and Arabness in the Third/Ninth Century3.2 Outlaws and Arabness in the Fourth/Tenth Century3.3 The Ayyubid- and Mamluk-Eras3.4 al-Maqrīzī and His Luṣūṣ al-ʿArab4 Contemporary Outlaws: Criminality in al-Maqrīzī’s Own World5 Al-Maqrīzī’s Manuscript: Its Conceptual, Narrative and Physical Structure5.1 The Thieves5.2 Narrative Structure5.3 The Book6 The Sources6.1 Dictionaries and the List of ‘Arab Thieves’6.2 Al-Maqrīzī’s Sources: Overview6.3 Al-Maqrīzī’s Copying Style: Case Studies6.4 Al-Maqrīzī and Outlaw Poetry: Specialised Collections6.5 Sources: Conclusions7 Concluding RemarksPlatesPart 2 Critical Edition and TranslationThe HolographThe TranslationAbbreviations and SymbolsText and Translation of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-baṣar, vol. V, Sections 1–2: the Arab ThievesSection on the Arabs’ Religions before IslamSection on the Arab HussiesSection on the Arab ThievesʿAmr of the DogTaʾabbaṭa ŠarranAl-ŠanfaráAl-Sulayk b. al-Sulakah al-SaʿdīAl-MuntaširAwfá b. Maṭar al-MāzinīʿAmr b. BarrāqahAl-UḥaymirNiẓāmYazīdBibliographyList of Quoted ManuscriptsIndex of VersesIndex of Names (People and Places)Index of Quoted Titles in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašarIndex of Sources in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašarIndex of GlossesIndex of Technical TermsFacsimile of MS Fatih 4340 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), fols. Ia–b, 1a–3b, 4*a–b, 4a–9b, 10*a–b, 10a–15b