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The excellence of the Arabs

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Field name	Details
ISBN	1479899267 (softcover)
ISBN	9781479899265 (softcover)
Author	Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim 828-889?
Title	The excellence of the Arabs / Ibn Qutaybah ; translated by Sarah Bowen Savant and Peter Webb ; foreword by Jack Weatherford ; volume editor Michael Cooperson
Publisher	New York : New York University Press, 2019
Physical desc.	254 pages ; 22 cm.
Series	Library of Arabic literature
Note	First published in 2017 with parallel Arabic text.
Note	CBL illustrations: front cover (Ar 5655.118).
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.
Contents	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.
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	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 5655
	Islamic civilization -- Early works to 1800
	Islamic civilization -- Early works to 1800
	Islamic Empire -- Intellectual life -- Early works to 1800
Added name(s)	Savant, Sarah Bowen
	Webb, Peter
	Weatherford, Jack 1946-
	Cooperson, Michael

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