The Portrayal of the Pre-Islamic Arabs as Murderers of Their Own Infants
This article critically reassesses the accounts of the supposed custom of infanticide, particularly female infanticide (in Arabic, wa’d al-banāt), among pre-Islamic Arabs, arguing that this notion emerged during the Umayyad era as an imagined aspect of the so-called pre-Islamic jāhiliyya ("age...
| Subtitles: | Social Identity across Time: Interdisciplinary Applications |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2026
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| In: |
Approaching religion
Year: 2026, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 42-55 |
| Further subjects: | B
The Qur'an
B Tamim B Early Islam B Infanticide B late antique Arabia |
| Online Access: |
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