The Excellence of the Arabs Sonya Posmentier Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel

Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region studies one of the flash points of the Middle East since the 1960s-a tiny region of roughly 100 square kilometers where Syria

segregates the community by creating a racialized divide

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The Excellence of the Arabs Sonya Posmentier Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-IsraelThe 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