The Excellence of the Arabs by Ibn Qutaybah

The Excellence of the Arabs

Ibn Qutaybah with Sarah Bowen Savant (Translator), Peter Webb (Translator)

224 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

history challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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A spirited defense of Arab identity from a time of political unrest In 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 Quta...

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