Contents
Foreword by W. T. H. Jackson .................... ix
Preface .................... xi
Introduction .................... xiii
The Fihrist of al-Nadīm
SUMMARY of BOOK .................... 1
CHAPTER I
Section 1. Language and Calligraphy .................... 6
Section 2. The Torah, the Gospel, and Other Scriptures .................... 41
Section 3. The Qur’ān .................... 47
CHAPTER II
Section 1. Grammarians of al-Baṣrah .................... 86
Section 2. Grammarians of al-Kūfah .................... 141
Section 3. Grammarians from Both Schools .................... 170
CHAPTER III
Section 1. Historians and Genealogists .................... 192
Section 2. Government Officials Who Wrote Books .................... 253
Section 3. Court Companions, Singers, and Jesters .................... 307
CHAPTER IV
Section 1. Poets of Pre-Islām and the Umayyad Period .................... 343
Section 2. Poets of the ‘Abbāsid Period .................... 351
CHAPTER V
Section 1. Muslim Sects; the Mu‘tazilah .................... 380
Section 2. The Shī‘ah, Imāmīyah, and Zaydīyah .................... 436
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Section 3. The Mujbirah and al-Ḥashawīyah .................... 446
Section 4. The Khawārij .................... 452
Section 5. Ascetics .................... 455
CHAPTER VI
Section 1. Mālik ibn Anas .................... 493
Section 2. Abū Ḥanīfah .................... 499
Section 3. Al-Shāfi‘ī .................... 515
Section 4. Dā’ūd ibn ‘Alī .................... 528
Section 5. Legal Authorities of the Shī‘ah; the ‘Ismā‘īlīyah .................... 535
Section 6. Jurists Depending upon the Ḥadīth .................... 545
Section 7. Al-Ṭabarī .................... 563
Section 8. Jurists of the Shurāt .................... 569
CHAPTER VII
Section 1. Philosophy; the Greek Philosophers, al-Kindī and Other Scholars .................... 571
Section 2. Mathematics and Astronomy .................... 634
Section 3. Medicine: Greek and Islāmic .................... 673
CHAPTER VIII
Section 1. Story Tellers and Stories .................... 712
Section 2. Exorcists, Jugglers, and Magicians .................... 725
Section 3. Miscellaneous Subjects and Fables .................... 734
CHAPTER IX
Section 1. The Ṣābians, Manichaeans, Dayṣānīyah, Khurramīyah, Marcionites, and Other Sects .................... 745
Section 2. Information about India, Indochina, and China .................... 826
CHAPTER X .................... 843
Bibliography .................... 869
Glossary .................... 905
Appendix .................... 928
Biographical Index .................... 931
General Index .................... 1137