The excellence of the Arabs /

The excellence of the Arabs /

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Main Author: Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889?

Other Authors: Montgomery, James E., Webb, Peter, 1978-, Savant, Sarah Bowen., Cooperson, Michael., Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889?

Format: Book

Language: English
Arabic

Published: New York : New York University Press, [2017]

Subjects:

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

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Call Number: DS36.85 .I2813 2017

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Table of 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.