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The excellence of the Arabs / Ibn Qutaybah ; edited by James E. Montgomery and Peter Webb ; translated by Sarah Bowen Savant and Peter Webb ; volume editor Michael Cooperson.
LIBRA DS36.85 .I28 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889?, author.
- Series:
- Library of Arabic literature
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic civilization--Early works to 1800.
- Islamic civilization.
- Intellectual life.
- Islamic Empire--Intellectual life--Early works to 1800.
- Islamic Empire.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 304 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- Text in Arabic and English; translated from the Arabic.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.
- Contains:
- 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
- ISBN:
- 9781479809578
- 1479809578
- OCLC:
- 961208087
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