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 attached to claims of being Arab had begun to decline. Although his own family originally hailed from Merv in the east, 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 criticism and uncertainty.The Excellence of the Arabs is in two parts. In the first, Arab Preeminence, which takes the form of an extended argument for Arab privilege, Ibn Qutaybah accuses his opponents of blasphemous envy. In the second, The Excellence of Arab Learning, he describes the fields of knowledge in which he believed pre-Islamic Arabians excelled, including knowledge of the stars, divination, horse husbandry, and poetry. And by incorporating extensive excerpts from the poetic heritage—"the archive of the Arabs"—Ibn Qutaybah aims to demonstrate that poetry is itself sufficient corroboration of Arab superiority.Eloquent and forceful, The Excellence of the Arabs addresses a central question at a time of great social flux at the dawn of classical Muslim civilization: what did it mean to be Arab?A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

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 attached to claims of being Arab had begun to decline. Although his own family originally hailed from Merv in the east, 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 criticism and uncertainty.The Excellence of the Arabs is in two parts. In the first, Arab Preeminence, which takes the form of an extended argument for Arab privilege, Ibn Qutaybah accuses his opponents of blasphemous envy. In the second, The Excellence of Arab Learning, he describes the fields of knowledge in which he believed pre-Islamic Arabians excelled, including knowledge of the stars, divination, horse husbandry, and poetry. And by incorporating extensive excerpts from the poetic heritage—"the archive of the Arabs"—Ibn Qutaybah aims to demonstrate that poetry is itself sufficient corroboration of Arab superiority.Eloquent and forceful, The Excellence of the Arabs addresses a central question at a time of great social flux at the dawn of classical Muslim civilization: what did it mean to be Arab?A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

The largest literary books of the literature in size and material, which is not (Amal Al -Shajri), who died in 499 AH. It includes 84 councils in various arts of language and literature, and it is the first to date for his councils from the owners of the hopes, whose poetic evidence was one hundred and a thousand homes, not repeated. The book can be considered one of the explanations of Al -Mutanabbi because of what he cited with his hair with explanation, comment and tracking other sheriffs. However, the most predominant grammar is, and it is considered at the forefront of books that talked about the deletion, and dealt with the minutes of the letters of meanings, and represents the first step of the educational grammar that deals with the extension of the phrase and the frequent theoretical and the distance from the complexity.

This is the book "The Literature of the Writer", which was classified and presented by Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Muslim bin Qutaybah Al -Dinouri, the grammar of the world, in which he spoke about the origins, literature and knowledge of writing In the first section, he dealt with issues in knowledge, in many chapters, he spoke, so it is about: knowing what people put in its place, interpreting what Muthanna came in the user of the speech, interpreting the user in the double speech, what is used from the supplication in speech, the origins of the names of people, knowledge of what In the sky, stars, times and wind, plants, cotton names, mentioning what a month of females is, what is known as one and in the form of horses ... knowledge in the food and drink ... the names in one thing for the different sides ... naming the two constructions.

A strange book of the hadith of Ibn Qutaybah was considered one of the valuable books for researchers and professors in the branches of the Hadith of Hadith; Where it falls within the scope of the science of hadith and the branches close to the science of jurisprudence, biography and other branches of the Prophet''s guidance.

A book in literature and its arts, which includes many arts of knowledge, the first of which is the beginner of creation and the stories of the prophets and their times, and the news of the famous companions and mosques and the conquest and what was forcibly and what was about peace, the religions of the Arabs in pre -Islamic times and other things

The author divided the book into ten small books. And this book that combined various sciences, dictated by two natures: the nature of the age and the nature of the author, for the era was inclusive of various sciences and multiple cultures, so if a battle of many various medicine, the author''s section, the book, participates in ten small books, the first: the book of the Sultan, and deals with: the Sultan, his biography and his policy, The choice of workers, the company of the Sultan and its literature, the consultation and opinion, the secret, its conception and its advertising, writing, book, rulings and kindness.

The book of the virtue of the Arabs and the warning of its sciences written by Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Muslim bin Qutaybah al -Dinuri, and the book is divided into two parts, and there are many important axes in them, on top of which is the talk about the virtue of the Arabs over others, and the preferred of Quraysh over others, and the talk about the sciences of the Arabs and their genius. From what this book also dealt with the Almighty saying, "You were the best nation that brought people out." And his saying, "God does not take you with the language in your faith." And dealt with piety and the words of God "If I honor you with God, I fear you", and his saying "or excitement from the knowledge of" and the Almighty''s saying "and make me a tongue Believe in others, "and all these verses and others explain the location of the Arabs from them and how they indicate their merit, and explain it in an explanation.

This is the book "The Literature of the Writer", which was classified and presented by Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Muslim bin Qutaybah Al -Dinouri, the grammar of the world, in which he spoke about the origins, literature and knowledge of writing In the first section, he dealt with issues in knowledge, in many chapters, he spoke, so it is about: knowing what people put in its place, interpreting what Muthanna came in the user of the speech, interpreting the user in the double speech, what is used from the supplication in speech, the origins of the names of people, knowledge of what In the sky, stars, times and wind, plants, cotton names, mentioning what a month of females is, what is known as one and in the form of horses ... knowledge in the food and drink ... the names in one thing for the different sides ... naming the two constructions.

Poetry and poets are among the oldest books that were classified in the translations of poets. Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Muslim bin Qutaybah Al -Dinouri (d. 276 AH, 889 CE) composed one of the imams of the third century AH. It is from the class of Al -Jahiz in Mu''tazila, an imam who is able to multiple aspects of authorship. The book of poetry and poets is one of the most important books that have been translated into poets. It is an authentic source and an important reference in its door. It is the great similar to the book of the layers of the poets of the poets of Ibn Salam Al -Jamhi. Ibn Qutaybah was not keen in this book to fulfill the poets and limit them and exclude their course, but was limited to celebrities. He said in the introduction to the book: "It was the most intense of the famous poets who were known to the people of the people of literature and those who are valid to protest their poems in the stranger, grammar, and in the book of God Almighty, and the hadith of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace." Also, Ibn Qutaybah did not classify poets in layers as he did, but rather his concern was translating, collecting poets news, and choosing a group of their poems, which he marketed as representation or their occasions. He was taking into account the time arrangement in eating poets, and most of the owners of the ancients were,

The collection of mosques known as the Great Mosque is a book written by Jalal al -Din al -Suyuti (who died in the year 911 AH). The collection of mosques known as the Great Mosque is a book written by Jalal al -Din al -Suyuti (who died in the year 911 AH).

Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds and the creatures, the angels are a world, the jinn is a world, man is a world, and the bird is a world, the monster and the cattle is a world, and every gender of the spirituality is also what has senses. The life, the projects, and the graves, which is a comprehensive name for all of this. The world: the wilderness, is effective, in the sense of effect, whoever acquitted God the Creator, that is, created them and excuses them, from his saying: "Your virginity in the stomachs of your mothers."

The author divided the book into ten small books. And this book that combined various sciences, dictated by two natures: the nature of the age and the nature of the author, for the era was inclusive of various sciences and multiple cultures, so if a battle of many various medicine, the author''s section, the book, participates in ten small books, the first: the book of the Sultan, and deals with: the Sultan, his biography and his policy, The choice of workers, the company of the Sultan and its literature, the consultation and opinion, the secret, its conception and its advertising, writing, book, rulings and kindness.

This book is one of the most prominent books of Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Abdul Majeed bin Muslim bin Qutaybah Al -Dinouri, a writer of a jurist, an interlocutor of an Arab historian. He has many works, the most famous of which are the eyes of the news, and in this book, which is in our hands intended by the verses of meanings, the problematic verses are mysterious meaning, and the reason for their name is because their listeners need to ask about their meanings, which prompted many scholars to take care of this section and explain these verses, and who is the most prominent of that Books are a subject and most of them arrange the book of the great meanings of Al -Dinuri. And he made under each book many chapters and the book is a reference for the literary connoisseur, in which the height of the language, the beauty of meanings and entertainment has been provided with scientific indexes.

One of the early books expanding in ears and early Arabic astronomy. One of the early books expanding in ears and early Arabic astronomy. One of the early books expanding in ears and early Arabic astronomy. One of the early books expanding in the early Arabs and astronomy

A book that examines the science of the science of the Noble Qur''an, which is the science of the problem of the Qur''an, that is, the things that appear to people or the public, its problem, but it is in fact a court and its ruling that it required is undoubtedly, and at the beginning he mentioned chapters. ,

One of the early books expanding in ears and early Arabic astronomy. One of the early books expanding in ears and early Arabic astronomy. One of the early books expanding in ears and early Arabic astronomy. One of the early books expanding in the early Arabs and astronomy

One of the most famous books of Ibn Qutaybah. Most of the writers who fought in this hadith returned to him, and Ibn Abd Rabbu almost absorbed his chapters in his book: (The unique contract) and was answered in a chapter entitled: (contradictory to Ibn Qutaybah in his saying in the drinks). It is one of the four books singled out by Ibn Qutaybah from his huge book: Ayoun Al -Akhbar.

Imamate and politics, "known as the history of the caliphs", a book of historical Islamic narratives that deals with the leadership of the Muslims "the caliphate" after the death of the Prophet Muhammad until the era of the Abbasid caliph Al -Ma''mun, is attributed as stated in his manuscripts to the literary and historian writer and the modern Ibn Qutaybah Al -Dinuri who lived in the second era of the Abbasid state, but this percentage It has become a questionable and controversy after many specialists in research and investigation took it after it to nullify the proportion of the book by Ibn Qutaybah, and with the texts that were unique in the texts that are almost not found in others, except that many of his narratives as well as questioning his percentage of Ibn Qutaybah caused it to be removed from the list of sources Discipline.

The author divided the book into ten small books. And this book that combined various sciences, dictated by two natures: the nature of the age and the nature of the author, for the era was inclusive of various sciences and multiple cultures, so if a battle of many various medicine, the author''s section, the book, participates in ten small books, the first: the book of the Sultan, and deals with: the Sultan, his biography and his policy, The choice of workers, the company of the Sultan and its literature, the consultation and opinion, the secret, its conception and its advertising, writing, book, rulings and kindness.

The interpretation of the various hadiths is a book written by Ibn Qutaybah, and it is a famous Islamic scholar from the golden age of Islam, in which he defends and reconciles the hadiths that Mu''tazila and the Qur''an rejected as contradictory or irrational. The book was martyred by the Christian author Paul bin Raja in his book Al -Wadi with the throat around 1010 to highlight the contradictions of hadiths

The book of reform is the mistake of Abu Ubaid in Gharib Al-Hadith-Al-Dinouri is one of the valuable books for researchers and professors in the branches of the Hadith of Hadith; Where the book of reforming the mistake of Abu Ubaid in Gharib Al-Hadith-Al-Dinouri is part of the scope of the sciences of the hadith and the branches close to the science of jurisprudence, biography and other branches of the Prophet''s guidance.

A book in literature and its arts, which includes many arts of knowledge, the first of which is the beginner of creation and the stories of the prophets and their times, and the news of the famous companions and mosques and the conquest and what was forcibly and what was about peace, the religions of the Arabs in pre -Islamic times and other things

Poetry and poets are among the oldest books that were classified in the translations of poets, and it is an authentic source and an important reference in its door. Ibn Qutaybah, in this book, was not keen to fulfill the poets and limit them and exclude their path, but rather was limited to the celebrities. He said in the introduction to the book: "It was the most intense of the famous poets who were known to the people of the people of literature and those who are valid to protest their poems in the stranger, grammar, and in the book of God Almighty, and the hadith of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace." Also, Ibn Qutaybah did not classify poets in layers as he did, but rather his concern was translating, collecting poets news, and choosing a group of their poems, which he marketed as representation or their occasions. He was taking into account the time arrangement in eating the poets, and most of his owners of the ancients were, but he did not give him the translations of some of the modernists such as Abu Al -Atahiya, Muslim bin Al -Walid, Al -Abbas bin Al -Ahnaf and their rule.

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 attached to claims of being Arab had begun to decline. Although his own family originally hailed from Merv in the east, 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 criticism and uncertainty.The Excellence of the Arabs is in two parts. In the first, Arab Preeminence, which takes the form of an extended argument for Arab privilege, Ibn Qutaybah accuses his opponents of blasphemous envy. In the second, The Excellence of Arab Learning, he describes the fields of knowledge in which he believed pre-Islamic Arabians excelled, including knowledge of the stars, divination, horse husbandry, and poetry. And by incorporating extensive excerpts from the poetic heritage—"the archive of the Arabs"—Ibn Qutaybah aims to demonstrate that poetry is itself sufficient corroboration of Arab superiority.Eloquent and forceful, The Excellence of the Arabs addresses a central question at a time of great social flux at the dawn of classical Muslim civilization: what did it mean to be Arab?A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

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 attached to claims of being Arab had begun to decline. Although his own family originally hailed from Merv in the east, 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 criticism and uncertainty.The Excellence of the Arabs is in two parts. In the first, Arab Preeminence, which takes the form of an extended argument for Arab privilege, Ibn Qutaybah accuses his opponents of blasphemous envy. In the second, The Excellence of Arab Learning, he describes the fields of knowledge in which he believed pre-Islamic Arabians excelled, including knowledge of the stars, divination, horse husbandry, and poetry. And by incorporating extensive excerpts from the poetic heritage—"the archive of the Arabs"—Ibn Qutaybah aims to demonstrate that poetry is itself sufficient corroboration of Arab superiority.Eloquent and forceful, The Excellence of the Arabs addresses a central question at a time of great social flux at the dawn of classical Muslim civilization: what did it mean to be Arab?A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

The largest literary books of the literature in size and material, which is not (Amal Al -Shajri), who died in 499 AH. It includes 84 councils in various arts of language and literature, and it is the first to date for his councils from the owners of the hopes, whose poetic evidence was one hundred and a thousand homes, not repeated. The book can be considered one of the explanations of Al -Mutanabbi because of what he cited with his hair with explanation, comment and tracking other sheriffs. However, the most predominant grammar is, and it is considered at the forefront of books that talked about the deletion, and dealt with the minutes of the letters of meanings, and represents the first step of the educational grammar that deals with the extension of the phrase and the frequent theoretical and the distance from the complexity.

This is the book "The Literature of the Writer", which was classified and presented by Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Muslim bin Qutaybah Al -Dinouri, the grammar of the world, in which he spoke about the origins, literature and knowledge of writing In the first section, he dealt with issues in knowledge, in many chapters, he spoke, so it is about: knowing what people put in its place, interpreting what Muthanna came in the user of the speech, interpreting the user in the double speech, what is used from the supplication in speech, the origins of the names of people, knowledge of what In the sky, stars, times and wind, plants, cotton names, mentioning what a month of females is, what is known as one and in the form of horses ... knowledge in the food and drink ... the names in one thing for the different sides ... naming the two constructions.

A strange book of the hadith of Ibn Qutaybah was considered one of the valuable books for researchers and professors in the branches of the Hadith of Hadith; Where it falls within the scope of the science of hadith and the branches close to the science of jurisprudence, biography and other branches of the Prophet''s guidance.

A book in literature and its arts, which includes many arts of knowledge, the first of which is the beginner of creation and the stories of the prophets and their times, and the news of the famous companions and mosques and the conquest and what was forcibly and what was about peace, the religions of the Arabs in pre -Islamic times and other things

The author divided the book into ten small books. And this book that combined various sciences, dictated by two natures: the nature of the age and the nature of the author, for the era was inclusive of various sciences and multiple cultures, so if a battle of many various medicine, the author''s section, the book, participates in ten small books, the first: the book of the Sultan, and deals with: the Sultan, his biography and his policy, The choice of workers, the company of the Sultan and its literature, the consultation and opinion, the secret, its conception and its advertising, writing, book, rulings and kindness.

The book of the virtue of the Arabs and the warning of its sciences written by Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Muslim bin Qutaybah al -Dinuri, and the book is divided into two parts, and there are many important axes in them, on top of which is the talk about the virtue of the Arabs over others, and the preferred of Quraysh over others, and the talk about the sciences of the Arabs and their genius. From what this book also dealt with the Almighty saying, "You were the best nation that brought people out." And his saying, "God does not take you with the language in your faith." And dealt with piety and the words of God "If I honor you with God, I fear you", and his saying "or excitement from the knowledge of" and the Almighty''s saying "and make me a tongue Believe in others, "and all these verses and others explain the location of the Arabs from them and how they indicate their merit, and explain it in an explanation.

This is the book "The Literature of the Writer", which was classified and presented by Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Muslim bin Qutaybah Al -Dinouri, the grammar of the world, in which he spoke about the origins, literature and knowledge of writing In the first section, he dealt with issues in knowledge, in many chapters, he spoke, so it is about: knowing what people put in its place, interpreting what Muthanna came in the user of the speech, interpreting the user in the double speech, what is used from the supplication in speech, the origins of the names of people, knowledge of what In the sky, stars, times and wind, plants, cotton names, mentioning what a month of females is, what is known as one and in the form of horses ... knowledge in the food and drink ... the names in one thing for the different sides ... naming the two constructions.

Poetry and poets are among the oldest books that were classified in the translations of poets. Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Muslim bin Qutaybah Al -Dinouri (d. 276 AH, 889 CE) composed one of the imams of the third century AH. It is from the class of Al -Jahiz in Mu''tazila, an imam who is able to multiple aspects of authorship. The book of poetry and poets is one of the most important books that have been translated into poets. It is an authentic source and an important reference in its door. It is the great similar to the book of the layers of the poets of the poets of Ibn Salam Al -Jamhi. Ibn Qutaybah was not keen in this book to fulfill the poets and limit them and exclude their course, but was limited to celebrities. He said in the introduction to the book: "It was the most intense of the famous poets who were known to the people of the people of literature and those who are valid to protest their poems in the stranger, grammar, and in the book of God Almighty, and the hadith of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace." Also, Ibn Qutaybah did not classify poets in layers as he did, but rather his concern was translating, collecting poets news, and choosing a group of their poems, which he marketed as representation or their occasions. He was taking into account the time arrangement in eating poets, and most of the owners of the ancients were,

The collection of mosques known as the Great Mosque is a book written by Jalal al -Din al -Suyuti (who died in the year 911 AH). The collection of mosques known as the Great Mosque is a book written by Jalal al -Din al -Suyuti (who died in the year 911 AH).

Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds and the creatures, the angels are a world, the jinn is a world, man is a world, and the bird is a world, the monster and the cattle is a world, and every gender of the spirituality is also what has senses. The life, the projects, and the graves, which is a comprehensive name for all of this. The world: the wilderness, is effective, in the sense of effect, whoever acquitted God the Creator, that is, created them and excuses them, from his saying: "Your virginity in the stomachs of your mothers."

The author divided the book into ten small books. And this book that combined various sciences, dictated by two natures: the nature of the age and the nature of the author, for the era was inclusive of various sciences and multiple cultures, so if a battle of many various medicine, the author''s section, the book, participates in ten small books, the first: the book of the Sultan, and deals with: the Sultan, his biography and his policy, The choice of workers, the company of the Sultan and its literature, the consultation and opinion, the secret, its conception and its advertising, writing, book, rulings and kindness.

This book is one of the most prominent books of Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Abdul Majeed bin Muslim bin Qutaybah Al -Dinouri, a writer of a jurist, an interlocutor of an Arab historian. He has many works, the most famous of which are the eyes of the news, and in this book, which is in our hands intended by the verses of meanings, the problematic verses are mysterious meaning, and the reason for their name is because their listeners need to ask about their meanings, which prompted many scholars to take care of this section and explain these verses, and who is the most prominent of that Books are a subject and most of them arrange the book of the great meanings of Al -Dinuri. And he made under each book many chapters and the book is a reference for the literary connoisseur, in which the height of the language, the beauty of meanings and entertainment has been provided with scientific indexes.

One of the early books expanding in ears and early Arabic astronomy. One of the early books expanding in ears and early Arabic astronomy. One of the early books expanding in ears and early Arabic astronomy. One of the early books expanding in the early Arabs and astronomy

A book that examines the science of the science of the Noble Qur''an, which is the science of the problem of the Qur''an, that is, the things that appear to people or the public, its problem, but it is in fact a court and its ruling that it required is undoubtedly, and at the beginning he mentioned chapters. ,

One of the early books expanding in ears and early Arabic astronomy. One of the early books expanding in ears and early Arabic astronomy. One of the early books expanding in ears and early Arabic astronomy. One of the early books expanding in the early Arabs and astronomy

One of the most famous books of Ibn Qutaybah. Most of the writers who fought in this hadith returned to him, and Ibn Abd Rabbu almost absorbed his chapters in his book: (The unique contract) and was answered in a chapter entitled: (contradictory to Ibn Qutaybah in his saying in the drinks). It is one of the four books singled out by Ibn Qutaybah from his huge book: Ayoun Al -Akhbar.

Imamate and politics, "known as the history of the caliphs", a book of historical Islamic narratives that deals with the leadership of the Muslims "the caliphate" after the death of the Prophet Muhammad until the era of the Abbasid caliph Al -Ma''mun, is attributed as stated in his manuscripts to the literary and historian writer and the modern Ibn Qutaybah Al -Dinuri who lived in the second era of the Abbasid state, but this percentage It has become a questionable and controversy after many specialists in research and investigation took it after it to nullify the proportion of the book by Ibn Qutaybah, and with the texts that were unique in the texts that are almost not found in others, except that many of his narratives as well as questioning his percentage of Ibn Qutaybah caused it to be removed from the list of sources Discipline.

The author divided the book into ten small books. And this book that combined various sciences, dictated by two natures: the nature of the age and the nature of the author, for the era was inclusive of various sciences and multiple cultures, so if a battle of many various medicine, the author''s section, the book, participates in ten small books, the first: the book of the Sultan, and deals with: the Sultan, his biography and his policy, The choice of workers, the company of the Sultan and its literature, the consultation and opinion, the secret, its conception and its advertising, writing, book, rulings and kindness.

The interpretation of the various hadiths is a book written by Ibn Qutaybah, and it is a famous Islamic scholar from the golden age of Islam, in which he defends and reconciles the hadiths that Mu''tazila and the Qur''an rejected as contradictory or irrational. The book was martyred by the Christian author Paul bin Raja in his book Al -Wadi with the throat around 1010 to highlight the contradictions of hadiths

The book of reform is the mistake of Abu Ubaid in Gharib Al-Hadith-Al-Dinouri is one of the valuable books for researchers and professors in the branches of the Hadith of Hadith; Where the book of reforming the mistake of Abu Ubaid in Gharib Al-Hadith-Al-Dinouri is part of the scope of the sciences of the hadith and the branches close to the science of jurisprudence, biography and other branches of the Prophet''s guidance.

A book in literature and its arts, which includes many arts of knowledge, the first of which is the beginner of creation and the stories of the prophets and their times, and the news of the famous companions and mosques and the conquest and what was forcibly and what was about peace, the religions of the Arabs in pre -Islamic times and other things

Poetry and poets are among the oldest books that were classified in the translations of poets, and it is an authentic source and an important reference in its door. Ibn Qutaybah, in this book, was not keen to fulfill the poets and limit them and exclude their path, but rather was limited to the celebrities. He said in the introduction to the book: "It was the most intense of the famous poets who were known to the people of the people of literature and those who are valid to protest their poems in the stranger, grammar, and in the book of God Almighty, and the hadith of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace." Also, Ibn Qutaybah did not classify poets in layers as he did, but rather his concern was translating, collecting poets news, and choosing a group of their poems, which he marketed as representation or their occasions. He was taking into account the time arrangement in eating the poets, and most of his owners of the ancients were, but he did not give him the translations of some of the modernists such as Abu Al -Atahiya, Muslim bin Al -Walid, Al -Abbas bin Al -Ahnaf and their rule.