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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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  • (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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    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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    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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  • “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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    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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    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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