Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "אבן קתייבה" in Hebrew language version.
{{cite book}}: (עזרה){{cite book}}: (עזרה)...he seems to refer, if the text is correctly understood, to his own Persian (ʿajam) descent and declares himself to be by nature not prejudiced for or against either Arabs or Persians. His father or family seems, indeed, to have come from Marv (hence the nesba Marvazī). He himself was, however, an eloquent spokesman for Arab civilization and in intellectual makeup was totally committed and assimilated to it
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