The Excellence of the Arabs |
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| Author:
| Qutaybah, Ibn |
| Translator:
| Savant, Sarah Bowen
Webb, Peter |
| Editor:
| Webb, Peter
Montgomery, James E. |
| Series title: | Library of Arabic Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4798-0957-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2017 |
| Publisher: | New York University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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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 ......
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 ......