ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"> <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <title>Al Nadim - The Fihrist - Index</title> <style> <!-- p.MsoPlainText {margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"; margin-left:0mm; margin-right:0mm; margin-top:0mm} --> </style> </head> <body> <p class="MsoPlainText" align="right"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">.</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" align="center"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-weight: 700"> <font size="4">The Fihrist of al-Nad+m</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" align="center"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">A Tenth-century survey of Muslim culture</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" align="right"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">.</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" align="center"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3"><b>Bayard Dodge</b> editor and translator&nbsp; </font><font size="2">(2 volumes, Columbia University Press, New York &amp; London, 1970)</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"> <font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <blockquote> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="7" width="90%" id="AutoNumber1"> <tr> <td width="33%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"> <font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="an_contents.htm" style="text-decoration: none; font-style: italic"> Contents</a></font></span></td> <td width="33%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"> <font size="3">&nbsp; <a href="an_foreword.htm" style="text-decoration: none">Foreword by W. T. H. Jackson</a></font></span></td> <td width="34%"> <p align="right"><font face="Times New Roman"> <a href="an_title.htm" style="text-decoration: none; font-style: italic"> Title Page..</a></font></td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: italic"> <font size="3"><a href="an_preface.htm" style="text-decoration: none">Preface</a></font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3"> <a href="an_intro.htm" style="text-decoration: none">Introduction</a></font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3"> <a href="an_summary.htm" style="text-decoration: none">SUMMARY OF BOOK</a></font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">CHAPTER I</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="an_1_1.htm" style="text-decoration: none">1. Language and Calligraphy</a></font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. The Torah, the Gospel, and Other Scriptures</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 3. The Qur n</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">CHAPTER II</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 1. Grammarians of al-Bas#rah&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp; 2. Grammarians of al-Kkfah&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp; 3. Grammarians from Both Schools</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">CHAPTER III</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 1. Historians and Genealogists</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="an_3_2.htm" style="text-decoration: none">2. Government Officials Who Wrote Books</a></font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 3. Court Companions, Singers, and Jesters</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">CHAPTER IV</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 1. Poets of Pre-Islm and the Umayyad Period&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp; 2. Poets of the  Abbsid Period</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">CHAPTER V</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="an_5_1.htm" style="text-decoration: none">1. Muslim Sects; the Mu tazilah</a></font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. The Sh+ ah, Imm+yah, and Zayd+yah</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 3. The Mujbirah and al-H#ashaw+yah </font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 4. The Khawrij</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 5. Ascetics</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">CHAPTER VI</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 1. Mlik ibn Anas&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp; 2. Abk H#an+fah&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp; 3. Al-Shfi +&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp; 4. D kd ibn  Al+&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp; 5. Legal Authorities of the Sh+ ah; the  Ism +l+yah</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 6. Jurists Depending upon the H#ad+th&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp; 7. Al-T#abar+&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp; 8. Jurists of the Shurt</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">CHAPTER VII</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="an_7_1.htm" style="text-decoration: none">1. Philosophy; the Greek Philosophers, al-Kind+ and Other Scholars</a></font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. Mathematics and Astronomy</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 3. Medicine: Greek and Islmic</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">CHAPTER VIII</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 1. Story Tellers and Stories&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp; 2. Exorcists, Jugglers, and Magicians&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp; 3. Miscellaneous Subjects and Fables</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">CHAPTER IX</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 1. The S#bians, Manichaeans, Days#n+yah, Khurram+yah, Marcionites, and Other Sects&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp; 2. Information about India, Indochina, and China</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">CHAPTER X</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3"> Bibliography</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3"> <a href="an_glossary.htm" style="text-decoration: none">Glossary</a></font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3"> <a href="an_appendix.htm" style="text-decoration: none">Appendix</a></font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3"> Biographical Index</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman"><font size="3"> <a href="an_index.htm" style="text-decoration: none">General Index</a></font></span></p> </blockquote> <p class="MsoPlainText">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="en-us"><font size="3"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman">[<a href="../../pb_others.html" style="text-decoration: none">Back to Main Page</a>]</span></font></span></p> </body> </html>