Fihrist of al-Nadim. A Tenth-Century Survey of Muslim Culture

Volume I ......Page 1
Contents ......Page 6
Foreword by W. T. H. Jackson ......Page 8
Preface ......Page 9
Introduction ......Page 11
The Fihrist of al-Nadîm ......Page 33
SUMMARY OF BOOK ......Page 34
Section 1. Language and Calligraphy ......Page 39
Section 2. The Torah, the Gospel, and Other Scriptures ......Page 74
Section 3. The Qur’an ......Page 80
Section I. Grammarians of al-Basrah ......Page 119
Section 2. Grammarians of al-Kûfàh ......Page 174
Section 3. Grammarians from Both Schools ......Page 203
Section I. Historians and Genealogists ......Page 225
Section 2. Government Officials Who Wrote Books ......Page 286
Section 3. Court Companions, Singers, and Jesters ......Page 340
Section 1. Poets of Pre-Isläm and the Umayyad Period ......Page 376
Section 2. Poets of the ‘Abbasid Period ......Page 384
Section 1. Muslim Sects; the Mu\'tazilah ......Page 413
Section 2. The Shiah, Imâmîyah, and Zaydîyah ......Page 469
Section 3. The Mujbirah and al-Hashawiyah ......Page 479
Section 4. The Khawärij ......Page 485
Section 5. Ascetics ......Page 488
Section 1. Mälik ibn Anas ......Page 526
Section 2. Abü Hanïfah ......Page 532
Section 3. Al-Shâfi‘ï ......Page 548
Section 4. Dä’üd ibn ‘Ali ......Page 561
Section 5. Legal Authorities of the Shiah; the Ismâ\'ïlïyah ......Page 568
Section 6. Jurists Depending upon the Hadïth ......Page 578
Section 7. Al-Tabari ......Page 596
Section 8. Jurists of the Shurät ......Page 602
Volume II ......Page 605
Contents ......Page 608
Section 1. Philosophy; the Greek Philosophers, al-Kindi and Other Scholars ......Page 610
Section 2. Mathematics and Astronomy ......Page 673
Section 3. Medicine: Greek and Islamic ......Page 712
Section 1. Story Tellers and Stories ......Page 744
Section 2. Exorcists, Jugglers, and Magicians ......Page 757
Section 3. Miscellaneous Subjects and Fables ......Page 766
Section 1. The Säbians, Manichaeans, Daysânïyah, Khurramïyah, Marcionites, and Other Sects ......Page 745
Section 2. Information about India, Indochina, and China ......Page 795
CHAPTER X ......Page 812
Bibliography ......Page 838
Glossary ......Page 875
Appendix ......Page 898
Biographical Index ......Page 899
General Index ......Page 1104