![]() ![]() ![]() A commentary to the poem Dat al-furu' fibuyut Adnan wa-qaba ili-ha wa-fada' ili-ha ("The leafy on the houses of the Adnan, their tribes and their qualities") by al-Nasir Muhammad b. 828), but highly suspected to be apocryphal. This volume introduces excerpts from: - Nihaya al-irab fi ahbar al-Furs wa-l-Arab ("The final purpose on the news about the Persians and Arabs") a work preserved in several manuscripts in European libraries - ascribed to al-Asma i (d. The voice of the first left little traces in contemporary sources at the same time the voice of the latter re-shaped every narration according to its historical-religious perspective, since its main goal was to find Arab precedents of the prophecy that revealed in the 7th century CE with the coming of Islam. Part III of this series deals with the shift from polytheism to monotheism in pre-Islamic Arabia. The tales are preceded by a brief critical study discussing the historical and cultural context either those same tales are framed in, or the sources narrating those tales were collected and written down. Each volume introduces some short tales, both in Arabic original and English translation, as examples of how the Tradition itself recorded and re-narrated events and characters of Pre-Islamic Arabian history these stories are selected preferably among unpublished texts or texts which are not yet translated in English. The ARABI (Arabs Recount Arabia Before Islam) series aims to investigate the narration about pre-Islamic Arabia built in the Arab-Muslim Tradition and compare it, whence possible, with the historical data resumed from direct (epigraphic and archaeological) and external sources.
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