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Arais al-majalis fi qisas al-anbiya, or : Lives of the prophets / as recounted by Abu Ishaq Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Thalabi ; translated and annotated by William M. Brinner.
Author
Thalabi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad, d. 1035
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Uniform title
ʻArāʼis al-majālis fī qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.
Description
1 online resource (xxxiii, 772 pages).
Details
Subject(s)
Prophets, Pre-Islamic
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Early works to 1800
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Related name
Brinner, William M.
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Series
Studies in Arabic literature ; v. 24.
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Studies in Arabic literature ; v. 24
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Summary note
These 11th-century tales have been read and studied through the years. This work is a translation of the Arabic text into English, from the story of the creation of the world to the time just before the coming of the Prophet Muhammad and the revelation of Islam.
Notes
Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [745]-750) and indexes.
Language note
English
Contents
Contents; Preface; Introduction; Creation; Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel; Hārut and Mārut; Noah; Hud; Sālih; Abraham; Lot; Joseph; Moses, son of Manasseh; Iram of the Pillars; The People of al-Rass; Job; Dhu l-Kifl; Shu'ayb; Moses; Korah; Al-Khidr; Moses; Ezekiel; Elijah; Elisha; Dhu l-Kifl (II); Eli and Samuel; Saul; David; David and Solomon; Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, and Ezra; Ezra; Luqmān the Wise; Buluqiyā; Dhu l-Qarnayn; Zachariah, John, Mary and Jesus; Jonah, son of Amittai; The People of the Cave (The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus); The Story of Jirjīs (Saint George); The Story of Samson the Prophet The People of the Trench (The Martyrs of Najrān); The People of the Elephant; Bibliography; Index
Other title(s)
Lives of the prophets
ISBN
1-280-46680-4
9786610466801
1-4175-9079-3
90-474-0156-5
OCLC
191039311
935229339
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ʻArāʻis al-majālis fī qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā, or, Lives of the prophets / as recounted by Abū Isḥāq Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Thaʻlabī ; translated and annotated by William M. Brinner.
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ʻArāʻis al-majālis fī qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā, or, Lives of the prophets / as recounted by Abū Isḥāq Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Thaʻlabī ; translated and annotated by William M. Brinner.
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