Maqrizi's delightful book is known to students of Arabic history by one untranslatable word of its lengthy title: al-Khitat, roughly rendered as Sketches.
In The Arab Thieves, Peter Webb critically explores the classic tales of pre-Islamic Arabian outlaws in Arabic Literature. A group of Arabian camel-rustlers ...
Mar 19, 2019 ... Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar: Vol. V, Sections 1-2: The Arab Thieves ... The Arab Thieves examines the development of Arabic outlaw ...