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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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  • Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Naqit, scholar in Greek science. An inscription, in an early copy of al-Fihrist, probably by the historian al-Maqrizi...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • “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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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