The Excellence of the Arabs / / Ibn Qutaybah.
A spirited defense of Arab identity from a time of political unrestIn ninth-century Abbasid Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of Arab identity had begun to decline. In The Excellence of the Arabs, the celebrated litterateur Ibn Qutaybah locks horns with those members of his society who...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Arabic Literature ;
51 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- About this Paperback
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Notes to the Introduction
- Book One: Arab Preeminence
- In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate May God bless and keep Muḥammad and his progeny
- Book Two: The Excellence of Arab Learning
- In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate
- 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 Qurʾanic Verses
- Index
- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
- About the Translators
- The Library of Arabic Literature