The Excellence of the Arabs.

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The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identity--its merits, values, and origins--at a time of political unrest and fragmentation, written by one of the most important scholars of the early Abbasid era.In the cosmopolitan milieu of Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ibn Qutaybah
Otros Autores: Webb, Peter, Montgomery, James, Savant, Sarah Bowen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2017.
Colección:Library of Arabic literature.
Temas:
Islamic civilization > Early works to 1800.
HISTORY > World.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Intellectual life
Islamic civilization
Islamic Empire > Intellectual life > Early works to 1800.
Empire islamique > Vie intellectuelle > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Islamic Empire
Early works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Letter from the General Editor; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text; Notes to the Introduction; The Excellence of the Arabs; Book One: Arab Preeminence; Book Two: Excellence of Arab Learning; Horse Husbandry; Stars; Somatomancy; Physiognomancy; Augury, Lithomancy, Geomancy, and Soothsaying; Oratory; Poetry; Wisdom Poetry; Wisdom in the Prose and Rhyming Aphorisms of the Arabs; [Colophon]; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Further Reading; Index of Qurʼanic Verses; Index; About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute; About this E-book; Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature.

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