Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq an-Nadīm (Arabic: ابو الفرج محمد بن إسحاق النديم), also Ibn Abī Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Warrāq, and commonly...
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of authors, books and accounts otherwise entirely lost. Al-Fihrist is evidence of Ibn al-Nadim's thirst for knowledge among the exciting sophisticated milieu...
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names) al-Ṣūfī, al-Azdī, al-Kūfī, or al-Ṭūsī. His grandfather's name is mentioned by Ibn al-Nadim as ʿAbd Allāh. If the attribution of the name al-Azdī...
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functions of an ecosystem. Ibn al-Nadim lists nearly 140 titles attributed to al-Jahiz, of which 75 are extant. The best known are Kitāb al-Ḥayawān (The book of...
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Ibn al-Nadīm, the financial problems encountered by al-Battānī in old age forced him to move from Raqqa to Baghdad. Al-Battānī died in 929 at Qasr al-Jiss...
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had 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...
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Abu Nuwas (redirect from Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hāni' al-Ḥakamī)
OCLC 898753712. Ibn al-Nadīm 1970, pp. 312–16, 353, 382, 1062. Ibn al-Nadīm 1970, p. 352. Ibn al-Nadīm 1970, pp. 173, 353. Flügel 1862, p. 89. Ibn al-Nadīm 1970...
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known as Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qāymāẓ ibn ʿAbdillāh at-Turkumānī al-Fāriqī ad-Dimashqī (5 October 1274 – 3 February...
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basics of its anatomy". The lectures of al-Razi attracted many students. As Ibn al-Nadim relates in Fihrist, al-Razi was considered a shaikh, an honorary...
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Sibawayh (redirect from Al-Kitab of Sibawayh)
young man. The tenth-century biographers Ibn al-Nadim and Abu Bakr al-Zubaydi, and in the 13th-century Ibn Khallikan, attribute Sibawayh with contributions...
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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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Brill 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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Abū al-Farash ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Jawzī, often referred to as Ibn al-Jawzī (Arabic: ابن الجوزي; c. 1116 – 16 June 1201) for short...
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ibn Ishaq ibn Yasar al-Muttalibi (Arabic: أَبُو عَبْدُ ٱلله مُحَمَّد ٱبْن إِسْحَاق ٱبْن يَسَار ٱلْمُطَّلِبيّ, romanized: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʾIsḥāq...
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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, pp. 102–110,...
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Abu ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Amr ibn Tammām al-Farāhīdī al-Azdī al-Yaḥmadī (Arabic: أبو عبد الرحمن الخليل بن أحمد بن عمرو بن تمام الفراهيدي...
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Philosophy, and whose son Ahmad was tutored by al-Kindi. According to Arab bibliographer Ibn al-Nadim, al-Kindi wrote at least two hundred and sixty books...
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Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī (Arabic: أبو العبّاس أحمد بن محمد بن كثير الفرغاني) also known as Alfraganus in the West (c. 800 –...
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9th century during the time of the Mihna and belonged, according to Ibn al-Nadim, to the traditionalist group of the Nawabit. His movement, also called...
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Abul Hasan or Abi al-Hassan Baladhuri. Al Baladhuri's ethnicity has been described as Persian by his contemporaries including Ibn Nadim, but some scholars...
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Abu Muhammad Abd al-Malik ibn Hisham ibn Ayyub al-Himyari (Arabic: أَبُو مُحَمَّدٌ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ هِشَامٍ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ الْحِمْيَرِيِّ, romanized: Abū...
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Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn ʿAmr al-Bakrī (Arabic: أبو عبيد عبد الله بن عبد العزيز بن محمد بن أيوب بن عمرو البكري), or simply al-Bakrī...
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51–55. Vyse 1840b, pp. 321–330. Tompkins 1978, p. 17. Ibn al-Nadim 1970, p. 846. Ibn al-Nadim 1970, pp. 846–847. Vyse 1840b, pp. 333–334. Halm, Heinz...
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Abu al-Fida Isma'il ibn Umar ibn Kathir al-Dimashqi (Arabic: أبو الفداء إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير الدمشقي, romanized: Abū al-Fiḍā’ Ismā‘īl ibn ‘Umar ibn Kathīr...
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Abbasid caliphs al-Manṣūr and al-Ma’mūn, and was among those who introduced astrology and astronomy to Baghdad. The bibliographer ibn al-Nadim described Mashallah...
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Khawlah bint al-Azwar, and Asma bint Abi Bakr. According to Ibn al-Nadim, al-Waqidi authored a book detailing the death of Husayn ibn Ali, though this...
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known source about her life. According to ibn al-Nadim, she was the daughter of another astrolabe maker known as al-ʻIjliyy; she and her father were apprentices...
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Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir (Arabic: محمد بن علي الباقر, romanized: Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Bāqir; c. 676–732) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad...
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Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) (Arabic: ياقوت الحموي الرومي) was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine ancestry active during...
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10th century scholar Ibn al‐Nadīm. The astronomer Ibn al-Adami, who is thought by scholars to have been al-Adami's son, wrote Naẓm al‐ʿiqd (now lost), a...
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