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The excellence of the Arabs /
A spirited defense of Arab identity from a time of political unrestIn ninth-century Abbasid Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of Arab identity had begun to decline. In The Excellence of the Arabs, the celebrated litterateur Ibn Qutaybah locks horns with those members of his society who...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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New York :
New York Univeristy Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Library of Arabic Literature
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Letter from the General Editor; About this Paperback; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Note on the Text; Notes to the Introduction; Book One: Arab Preeminence; Book Two: The 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 the Translators