Fihrist of al-Nadim. A Tenth-Century Survey of Muslim Culture [two]
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Table of contents :
Volume I
Contents
Foreword by W. T. H. Jackson
Preface
Introduction
The Fihrist of al-Nadîm
SUMMARY OF BOOK
CHAPTER I
Section 1. Language and Calligraphy
Section 2. The Torah, the Gospel, and Other Scriptures
Section 3. The Qur’an
CHAPTER II
Section I. Grammarians of al-Basrah
Section 2. Grammarians of al-Kûfàh
Section 3. Grammarians from Both Schools
CHAPTER III
Section I. Historians and Genealogists
Section 2. Government Officials Who Wrote Books
Section 3. Court Companions, Singers, and Jesters
CHAPTER IV
Section 1. Poets of Pre-Isläm and the Umayyad Period
Section 2. Poets of the ‘Abbasid Period
CHAPTER V
Section 1. Muslim Sects; the Mu'tazilah
Section 2. The Shiah, Imâmîyah, and Zaydîyah
Section 3. The Mujbirah and al-Hashawiyah
Section 4. The Khawärij
Section 5. Ascetics
CHAPTER VI
Section 1. Mälik ibn Anas
Section 2. Abü Hanïfah
Section 3. Al-Shâfi‘ï
Section 4. Dä’üd ibn ‘Ali
Section 5. Legal Authorities of the Shiah; the Ismâ'ïlïyah
Section 6. Jurists Depending upon the Hadïth
Section 7. Al-Tabari
Section 8. Jurists of the Shurät
Volume II
Contents
CHAPTER VII
Section 1. Philosophy; the Greek Philosophers, al-Kindi and Other Scholars
Section 2. Mathematics and Astronomy
Section 3. Medicine: Greek and Islamic
CHAPTER VIII
Section 1. Story Tellers and Stories
Section 2. Exorcists, Jugglers, and Magicians
Section 3. Miscellaneous Subjects and Fables
CHAPTER IX
Section 1. The Säbians, Manichaeans, Daysânïyah, Khurramïyah, Marcionites, and Other Sects
Section 2. Information about India, Indochina, and China
CHAPTER X
Bibliography
Glossary
Appendix
Biographical Index
General Index
