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Author:

Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889?, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83043339

Title:

The excellence of the Arabs / Ibn Qutaybah ; edited by James E. Montgomery, Peter Webb ; translated by Sarah Bowen Savant, Peter Webb ; volume editor Michael Cooperson.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xxxiii, 304 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Islamic civilization--Early works to 1800.
Islamic Empire--Intellectual life--Early works to 1800.
Intellectual life.
Islamic civilization.
Islamic Empire.
Early works.

Other Authors:

Montgomery, James E., editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88620547
Webb, Peter, translator. translator. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86833415
Savant, Sarah Bowen, translator. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013019005
Cooperson, Michael, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99037828
Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889? Faḍl al-ʻArab wa-al-tanbīh ʻalá ʻulūmihā.
Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889? Faḍl al-ʻArab wa-al-tanbīh ʻalá ʻulūmihā. English. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016065406

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references 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.

ISBN:

1479885967
9781479885961
1479879630
9781479879632
1479809578
9781479809578

OCLC:

(OCoLC)961208087

LCCN:

2016055378

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)