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

By Michael Lecker, Hebrew University of JerusalemYaara Perlman, Princeton University

The chapter about idol worship in Maqrīzī's Universal History includes excerpts from books that are no longer extant. They make it harder to argue against the import or even the very existence of pre-Islamic idol worship.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004499830
• ISBN13: 9789004499836
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"