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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)

 

    Contents   Foreword by W. T. H. Jackson

Title Page..

Preface

Introduction

 

SUMMARY OF BOOK

CHAPTER I

   1. Language and Calligraphy

   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

Glossary

Appendix

Biographical Index

General Index

 

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