The Excellence Of The Arabs (Library Of Arabic Literature, 39)

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.

• | Author: Ibn Qutaybah|?Abd Allah ibn Muslim Ibn Qutaybah, James E. Montgomery
• | Publisher: NYU Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 04, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 1479809578
• | ISBN-13: 9781479809578