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The excellence of the Arabs

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Field name	Details
ISBN	1479809578 (hbk.)
ISBN	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
Person as subject	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

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