Download or read book Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar: Volume IV, Section 2: The Idols of the Arabs written by Michael Lecker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.