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.
Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889?, author.; Montgomery, James E. (James Edward), 1962- editor.; Webb, Peter, 1978- editor, translator.; Savant, Sarah Bowen, translator.; Cooperson, Michael, editor.; 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.; ProQuest (Firm)
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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.
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9781479879632 (electronic bk.)
1479879630 (electronic bk.)
9781479809578
1479809578
1479879630 (electronic bk.)
9781479809578
1479809578
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New York : New York University Press, [2017]
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English
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Text in Arabic and English; translated from the Arabic.
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1 online resource (xxxiii, 304 pages.)
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DS36.85 .I28 2017
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909/.0974927
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Montgomery, James E. (James Edward), 1962- editor.
Webb, Peter, 1978- editor, translator.
Savant, Sarah Bowen, translator.
Cooperson, Michael, editor.
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.
Webb, Peter, 1978- editor, translator.
Savant, Sarah Bowen, translator.
Cooperson, Michael, editor.
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.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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Library of Arabic literature.
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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.
Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889? Faḍl al-ʻArab wa-al-tanbīh ʻalá ʻulūmihā. English.
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Table of 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.
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.