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The Book of Idols (Kitāb al-ʾAṣnām), written by the Arab scholar Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (737–819), is the most popular of the Islamic-era works about the gods and rites of pre-Islamic Arab religions. [1]
[1] [2] The historian Nabih Amin Faris compiled the surviving volumes into an annotated work, al-Juz' al-Thamin, published in 1940 by the Princeton University as part of the Princeton Oriental Texts collection. [2] In 1881, parts of the Kitāb al-Iklīl were translated into the German language by David Heinrich Müller. [3]
Chapter I. Arab Culture in the Twelfth Century. Nabih Amin Faris, American University of Beirut. [116] Chapter II. The Impact of the Crusades on Moslem Lands. Philip Khuri Hitti, Princeton University. [117] Chapter III. Social Classes in the Crusader States: the "Minorities". Joshua Prawer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [118] Chapter IV.
al-Kalbi, Ibn (1952), Book of Idols, Being a Translation from the Arabic of the Kitāb al-Asnām (Translation and Commentary by Nabih Amin Faris), Princeton University Press; Lurker, Manfred (2015), A Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons, Routledge, ISBN 9781136106200
A translation from the Arabic of the work of Hisham Ibn al-Kalbī by Nabih Amin Faris. Arab Culture in the Twelfth Century (1985). In the Wisconsin Collaborative History of the Crusades, Volume V, The Impact of the Crusades on the Near East. [292] Harold S. Fink. Harold S. Fink (1903–1981), an American historian. [293]
Faris, Nabih Amin, and Robert Potter Elmer. Arab Archery: An Arabic Manuscript of About A.D. 1500, "A Book on the Excellence of the Bow & Arrow" and the Description Thereof. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. 182 pages.
Faris, Nabih Amin (1952). The Book of Idols: Being a Translation from the Arabic of the Kitab al-Isnam by Hishām ibn al-Kalbi. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-7679-2. Fishbein, Michael, ed. (1990). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXI: The Victory of the Marwānids, A.D. 685–693/A.H. 66–73. SUNY Series in Near ...
Nabih Amin Faris: The Antiquities of South Arabia being a Translation from the Arabic with Linguistic, Geographic and Historic Notes of the Eight Book of al-Hamdānī's al-Iklīl, Princeton, 1938; Yūsuf Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh (Hrsg.): Al-Hamdani. A great Yemeni Scholar. Studies on the Occasion of his Millenial Anniversary. Sanaa, 1986