The Excellence of the Arabs.

Name: The Excellence of the Arabs.
Author: Webb, Peter., Montgomery, James., Savant, Sarah Bowen.

Title	The Excellence of the Arabs.
Author	Webb, Peter., Montgomery, James., Savant, Sarah Bowen.
Publication Date:	2017
Publication Place	- NYU Press
Subject	Islamic civilization -- Early works to 1800., Islamic Empire -- Intellectual life -- Early works to 1800.
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	257
Physical Dimensions	1 online resource (257 pages)
Library:	University College Dublin Library
Library Asset ID	10.18574/9781479879632 doi
Record ID	b3257188
Library Location	In collection: Ebook Central Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Date	2017
Notes	About the Editor-Translator.
Sample Text	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 locks horns with those members of his society who belittled Arabness and vaunted the glories of Persian heritage and culture. Instead, he upholds the status of Arabs and their heritage in the face of criticism and uncertainty.The Excellence of the Arabs is in two parts. In the first, Arab Preeminence, which takes the form of an extended argument for Arab privilege, Ibn Qutaybah accuses his opponents of blasphemous envy. In the second, The Excellence of Arab Learning, he describes the fields of knowledge in which he believed pre-Islamic Arabians excelled, including knowledge of the stars, divination, horse husbandry, and poetry. And by incorporating extensive excerpts from the poetic heritage--"the archive of the Arabs"--Ibn Qutaybah aims to demonstrate that poetry is itself sufficient corroboration of Arab superiority.Eloquent and forceful, The Excellence of the Arabs addresses a central question at a time of great social flux at the dawn of classical Muslim civilization: what did it mean to be Arab?
Bibliyografya	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Seri	Library of Arabic Literature, Library of Arabic literature.

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The Excellence of the Arabs.

Author Webb, Peter., Montgomery, James., Savant, Sarah Bowen.

Publication Date 2017

Publication Place - NYU Press

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

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Pages Count 257

Physical Dimensions 1 online resource (257 pages)

Library University College Dublin Library

Library Asset ID 10.18574/9781479879632 doi

Record ID b3257188

Library Location In collection: Ebook Central Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Date 2017

Notes About the Editor-Translator.

Sample Text 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 locks horns with those members of his society who belittled Arabness and vaunted the glories of Persian heritage and culture. Instead, he upholds the status of Arabs and their heritage in the face of criticism and uncertainty.The Excellence of the Arabs is in two parts. In the first, Arab Preeminence, which takes the form of an extended argument for Arab privilege, Ibn Qutaybah accuses his opponents of blasphemous envy. In the second, The Excellence of Arab Learning, he describes the fields of knowledge in which he believed pre-Islamic Arabians excelled, including knowledge of the stars, divination, horse husbandry, and poetry. And by incorporating extensive excerpts from the poetic heritage--"the archive of the Arabs"--Ibn Qutaybah aims to demonstrate that poetry is itself sufficient corroboration of Arab superiority.Eloquent and forceful, The Excellence of the Arabs addresses a central question at a time of great social flux at the dawn of classical Muslim civilization: what did it mean to be Arab?

Bibliyografya Includes bibliographical references and index.

Seri Library of Arabic Literature, Library of Arabic literature.