ISBN |
1479809578 (hbk.) |
9781479809578 (hbk.) |
Author |
Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim 828-889? |
Title |
The excellence of the Arabs / Ibn Qutaybah ; edited by James E. Montgomery and Peter Webb ; translated by Sarah Bowen Savant and Peter Webb ; volume editor Michael Cooperson |
Publisher |
New York : New York University Press, 2017 |
Physical desc. |
xxxiii, 304 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Library of Arabic literature |
Note |
Compliments of the series editors. |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-283) and index. |
Contents |
Book one: Arab preeminence -- Book two: The excellence of Arab learning -- Horse husbandry -- Stars -- Somatomancy -- Physiognomancy -- Augury, cleromancy, geomancy, and soothsaying -- Oratory -- Poetry -- Wisdom poetry -- Wisdom in the prose and rhyming aphorisms of the Arabs. |
Language Note |
Parallel text in Arabic and English. |
Person as subject |
Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim -- 828-889? Faḍl al-ʻArab wa-al-tanbīh ʻalá ʻulūmihā |
Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim -- 828-889? Faḍl al-ʻArab wa-al-tanbīh ʻalá ʻulūmihā -- English |
Subject |
Islamic civilization -- Early works to 1800 |
Islamic civilization -- Early works to 1800 |
Islamic Empire -- Intellectual life -- Early works to 1800 |
Added name(s) |
Montgomery, James E. editor |
Webb, Peter editor translator |
Savant, Sarah Bowen translator |