Ibn Qutaybah

Broschiertes Buch

The Excellence of the Arabs

Beschreibung

Written by one of the most prolific scholars of the early Abbasid era, this volume is a spirited defense of Arab identity, its merits, values, and origins at a time of political unrest and fragmentation.

Autor

Ibn Qutaybah (Author) Ibn Qutaybah (d. 276/889) was a renowned judge and writer known for many influential works on a wide range of subjects, including Qur'anic exegesis, poetry and poetics, and statecraft. James E. Montgomery (Editor) James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems, Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems, and Kal¿lah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, with Michael Fishbein. In 2024 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy. Peter Webb (Editor, Translator) Peter Webb is a University Lecturer in Arabic Literature and Culture at Leiden University. He is the author of Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam as well as editor and translator of The Excellence of the Arabs (with James Montgomery and Sarah Savant) for the Library of Arabic Literature. Sarah Bowen Savant (Translator) Sarah Bowen Savant is Professor at The Aga Khan University, London, and the author of The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New York University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 139mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9781479899265
• ISBN-10: 1479899267
• Artikelnr.: 56022811