The Excellence of the Arabs / / Ibn Qutaybah; ed. by James E. Montgomery, Peter Webb.
The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identity—its merits, values, and origins—at a time of political unrest and fragmentation, written by one of the most important scholars of the early Abbasid era.In the cosmopolitan milieu of Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of...
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