A spirited defense of Arab identity from a time of political unrestIn ninth-century Abbasid Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of Arab identity had begun to decline. In The Excellence of the Arabs, the celebrated litterateur Ibn Qutaybah locks horns with those members of his society who...

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1. Verfasser:	Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889? (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Savant, Sarah Bowen (ÜbersetzerIn), Webb, Peter, 1978- (ÜbersetzerIn), Cooperson, Michael (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English Arabic
Veröffentlicht:	New York : New York Univeristy Press, 2019.
Schriftenreihe:	Library of Arabic Literature
Schlagworte:	Islamic civilization > Early works to 1800. Islamic Empire > Intellectual life > Early works to 1800. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern. Islamic civilization Early works
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	A spirited defense of Arab identity from a time of political unrestIn ninth-century Abbasid Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of Arab identity had begun to decline. In The Excellence of the Arabs, the celebrated litterateur 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. By incorporating extensive excerpts from the poetic heritage--"the archive of the Arabs"--Ibn Qutaybah aims to demonstrate that poetry is itself sufficient evidence 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 does it mean to be Arab?
Beschreibung:	1 online resource
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:	9781479859764 1479859761 9781479863334 1479863335