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The Fihrist of al-Nadīm
A Tenth-century survey of Muslim culture
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Bayard Dodge editor and translator (2 volumes, Columbia University Press, New York & London, 1970)
CHAPTER I
2. The Torah, the Gospel, and Other Scriptures
3. The Qur’ān
CHAPTER II
1. Grammarians of al-Baṣrah — 2. Grammarians of al-Kūfah — 3. Grammarians from Both Schools
CHAPTER III
1. Historians and Genealogists
2. Government Officials Who Wrote Books
3. Court Companions, Singers, and Jesters
CHAPTER IV
1. Poets of Pre-Islām and the Umayyad Period — 2. Poets of the ‘Abbāsid Period
CHAPTER V
1. Muslim Sects; the Mu‘tazilah
2. The Shī‘ah, Imāmīyah, and Zaydīyah
3. The Mujbirah and al-Ḥashawīyah
4. The Khawārij
5. Ascetics
CHAPTER VI
1. Mālik ibn Anas — 2. Abū Ḥanīfah — 3. Al-Shāfi‘ī — 4. Dā’ūd ibn ‘Alī — 5. Legal Authorities of the Shī‘ah; the ‘Ismā‘īlīyah
6. Jurists Depending upon the Ḥadīth — 7. Al-Ṭabarī — 8. Jurists of the Shurāt
CHAPTER VII
1. Philosophy; the Greek Philosophers, al-Kindī and Other Scholars
2. Mathematics and Astronomy
3. Medicine: Greek and Islāmic
CHAPTER VIII
1. Story Tellers and Stories — 2. Exorcists, Jugglers, and Magicians — 3. Miscellaneous Subjects and Fables
CHAPTER IX
1. The Ṣābians, Manichaeans, Dayṣānīyah, Khurramīyah, Marcionites, and Other Sects — 2. Information about India, Indochina, and China
CHAPTER X
Bibliography
Biographical Index