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Ibn Qutaybah 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.
Peter Webb (Edited and Translated by)
Peter Webb is Lecturer in Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of Leiden and the author of Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam.
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 Loss Sings, a collaboration with the Scottish artist Alison Watt, and Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, a co-translation with Michael Fishbein.
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.