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The excellence of the Arabs
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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
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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.
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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
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Webb, Peter
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Savant, Sarah Bowen
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