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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.
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
