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    Kitāb al-Fihrist (Arabic: كتاب الفهرست) (The Book Catalogue) is a compendium of the knowledge and literature of tenth-century Islam compiled by Ibn al-Nadim...
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  • Kitāb al-Fihrist (The Book Catalogue). Much known of an-Nadim is deduced from his epithets. 'an-Nadim' (النَّدِيم), 'the Court Companion' and 'al-Warrāq...
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    been Zoroastrians. Ibn al-Nadīm's Al-Fihrist includes a short biography on al-Khwārizmī together with a list of his books. Al-Khwārizmī accomplished most...
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    Kufa (redirect from Al Kufah)
    (from Medina)). Ibn al-Nadim (died c. 999) the author of the famous Kitab al-Fihrist, an index of Arabic books, dedicates the a section of the first chapter...
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  • (al-), Al-Fihrist, 153, 156, 158, 345–6, 1113. Khallikān, Wafayāt, I, 83; Nadīm (al-) Al-Fihrist, 86, 191, 345, 348, 1110. Flügel gives the name 'al-Sukkarī'...
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    Emirates Mars Mission. Only in the MS of Al-Fihrist in the Chester Beatty Library. Nadīm (al-) 1970, p. 373. Nadīm (al-) 1970, p. 1066. Khallikān (Ibn) 1843...
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    scholarly debate. Al-Fihrist gives a list of the first and last sentences of each section of the Kitāb al-Ḥayawān. Abū al-Hudhayl al-ʿAllāf (d. ca. 841)...
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    centuries, and most importantly include the references in Ibn al-Nadim's (d. 995) al-Fihrist. More recently, the narrative of the Abbasid House of Wisdom...
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    books can be found in Kitāb al-Fihrist of Ibn Al-Nadim. The Noble Qur'an by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan and Shaykh Taqi ud din al Hilali The Meaning of the...
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  • Pavet de. Paris: Imprimerie nationale. Nadīm (al-), Ibn Isḥāq (1970). Dodge, B. (ed.). The Fihrist of al-Nadīm A Tenth-Century Survey of Muslim Culture...
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  • bibliography of ʻAmr ibn Baḥr al-Jāḥiẓ (ca. 773 - 869) are the titles listed in chapter five of al-Fihrist of Isḥāq al-Nadīm (d. ca. 998). Most of Chap...
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  • “Lughdah” is probably correct. Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan al-Iṣbahānī was called "Lughdah". Omitted in al-Fihrist Omitted in al-Fihrist Dodge has "Legends in the Ṭiwāl...
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    seemingly non-verbatim. The famous index of Arabic books, Kitab al-Fihrist by Ibn Al-Nadim, mentions earlier translations of four books by Zosimos, but...
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  • Press. Ṭūsī (al-), Abū Ja’far Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan (1885). Sprenger, Aloys (ed.). "Fihrist al-Ṭūsī (Tusy's list of Shy'ah Books and 'Alam al-Hoda's Notes...
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  • 11th century.: 131  A chapter on the Grammarians of al-Baṣra in the tenth century book Kitab al-Fihrist by Ibn an-Nadim, contains quotes about ad-Duʾalī...
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    Publishers, 2006. Ibn al-Nadim, Kitab al-Fihrist, pg.217 Ibn al-Nadim, Kitab al-Fihrist, pg.234 Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Lisan al-Mizan. Vol. 5, pg. 173...
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    Martyn (1893). "The Barbary Coast By Henry Martyn Field: Pg 93". Ibn al-Nadim. Al-Fiḥrist, Book I, pp. 35–36 Ibn Khaldun (1925). Histoire des Berbères et des...
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    Beatty and Tonk MSS of Al-Fihrist. Omitted in Flügel edition. Uncertain which ‘Ibn’ of the Munajjim family. Beatty MS of Al-Fihrist suggests “Ramaḍān” erroneously...
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    Ireland. pp. 297–301. Nadīm (al), Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq Abū Ya’qūb al-Warrāq (1970). Dodge, Bayard (ed.). The Fihrist of al-Nadim; a tenth-century...
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  • Al-Fihrist (in Arabic and German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: F.C.W. Vogel. p. 21. Flügel, Gustav Leberecht (1872). J. Roediger; A. Mueller (eds.). Al-Fihrist (in...
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    [citation needed] In his Kitab al-Fihrist (Catalogue), Ibn al-Nadim recounts the various names attached to the transmission of Kitab al-'Ayn, i.e. the isnad (chain...
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  • al Qadr Tafsir Surat al Fatiha Tafsir Surat al A'sr Tafsir Surat al Baqara Tafsir Surat al Tawhid Nubwuah Khassah Kitab al Fihrist Another Kitab al Fihrist...
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    Baghdad in the early years of the caliphate of al-Maʾmūn (r. 813–833). According to al-Nadim's Al-Fihrist (10th century), he lived on the West Side of Baghdad...
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  • many were retained on substantial pensions. Ishāq al-Nadīm—the 10th century author of Kitab al-Fihrist—provides a trove of biographical accounts of the...
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    earliest use of the ethnic name. Al-Khwarizmi also mentions the Zaghawa in the 9th century, as did ibn al-Nadim in his Al-Fihrist in the 10th century. Kanem...
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    that predate Nahj al-balagha, including Khutab Ali by the Sunni historian Ibn al-Kalbi (d. 819), al-Fihrist by the historian Ibn al-Nadim (d. c. 995)...
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    Mu'tazilite Theology, Le Shi'isme Imamite, Paris 1970 vol 21. al-Tusi al-Fihrist. Mashhad 1932 (1351 A.H.) p303. A. A. A. Fyzee (1971). "Ibn Bābawayh(i)"...
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    beliefs regarding sorcery and commanding jinn are attested in ibn al-Nadim's Kitāb al-Fihrist.(p141) Since he locates such practises not as a branch of science...
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  • title Mu'jam al-Shu'arā by al-Marzubānī. Translated from the Beatty MS of Al-Fihrist. The Flügel edition of Al-Fihrist gives the title Kitāb al-Wāthiq, but...
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    were far-reaching and lasted for several centuries. Ibn al-Nadim in his Kitab al-Fihrist praised al-Kindi and his work stating: The best man of his time...
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