Format:
xxxiii, 304 S.
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24 cm
Original writing person/organisation:
ابن قتيبة, عبد الله بن مسلم
ISBN:
9781479809578
Series Statement:
Library of Arabic literature
Uniform Title:
Faḍl al-ʿArab wa-'t-tanbīh ʿalā ʿulūmihā
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 277-283. - Mit Glossar und Registern
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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 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?
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Einleitung und Anmerkungen englisch, Text englisch und arabisch
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe (e-Book, PDF) 9781479879632
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe (e-Book) 9781479885961
Language:
Arabic
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English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Abbasidenreich
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Islam
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Araber
;
Kultur
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Quelle
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Übersetzung
URL:
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