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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ibn Qutaybah
Other Authors: Savant, Sarah Bowen, Montgomery, James, Webb, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Arabic
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Islamic civilization.
Intellectual life.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
HISTORY > World.
Islamic civilization > Early works to 1800.
Islamic Empire.
Empire islamique > Vie intellectuelle > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Islamic Empire > Intellectual life > Early works to 1800.
Early works.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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