Fifteen articles dealing with a wide range of topics from Sufism and the Koran to law and literature of the Islamic society.
"Depuis les premiers liens entre les tribus juives d'Arabie et le Prophète Muhammad jusqu'aux récents conflits du Proche-Orient, en passant par les civilisations de Bagdad et de Cordoue sans oublier l'Empire ottoman, le monde perse et même l'espace européen, les relations tour à…
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…
The excellence of the Arabs
by Ibn-Qutaiba, ʿAbdallāh Ibn-Muslim
fromLibrary of arabic literature
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.
The excellence of the Arabs
by Ibn-Qutaiba, ʿAbdallāh Ibn-Muslim
fromLibrary of arabic literature
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
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 …
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…
