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The Excellence of the Arabs
Ibn Qutaybah
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Description for The Excellence of the Arabs
Hardback. Editor(s): Montgomery, James. Translator(s): Savant, Sarah Bowen. Series: Library of Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; HBLC; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
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 being Arab had begun to decline. Although his own family originally hailed from Merv in the east, Ibn Qutaybah (213-76 H/828-89 AD) locks horns with those members of ... Read more
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 being Arab had begun to decline. Although his own family originally hailed from Merv in the east, Ibn Qutaybah (213-76 H/828-89 AD) locks horns with those members of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
New York University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Library of Arabic Literature
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479809578
SKU
V9781479809578
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About Ibn Qutaybah
Ibn Qutaybah (d. 276/889) was a renowned judge and writer known for many influential works on a wide range of subjects, including Qur'anic exegesis, poetry and poetics, and statecraft. Sarah Bowen Savant is Professor at The Aga Khan University, London, and the author of The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran. Peter Webb ... Read more
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