The Excellence of the Arabs Urban & Land Use Planning Gaelen Foley

Gaelen Foley

He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a past-President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature

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ISBN10: 1477414185

The Excellence of the Arabs Urban & Land Use Planning Gaelen FoleyA 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 Qutaybah locks horns with those members of his society who belittled Arabness and vaunted the glories of Persian heritage and culture. Instead, he upholds the status of Arabs and their heritage in the face of