Kitâb tabakât al-uman
Subtitle: (Livre des catégories des nations)
By: Traduction avec notes et indices, précédée d'une introd., par Régis Blachère ..
Contributors: Cheikho, Louis, 1859-1927
Publisher: Larose
Published: 1935
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Translated from: ara
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Medieval Science
Other titles: Livre des catégories des nations.
Notes: At head of title: Sâ'id al-Adalusî

The compendium known as "Tabakât al-umam" is derived in part from the ancients, or from earlier writers like al-Fărăb.̄̌ It is sometimes regarded as a continuation of Ibn Hazm's "Físal," by his disciple, Sâ'id ibn, al-Andalusi, to whom the work is ascribed. Fragments of it were included in the works, of Ibn Sa'ād, 'Alī ibn Mūsā, al-Maghribī, and Ibn al-Kiftī, whose Akhbăr al-hukamā' may be the same work. Cf. Enzyk. d. Islām, IV, p. 900, and Asín Palacios, Abenházm de Córdoba, t. 1 (1927) p. 285.

The translation follows Cheikho's Arabic text (Beyrouth, 1912). It is based on a manuscript, regarded as complete, in the British Museum, with additions and emendations from two manuscripts in the Bibliothèque nationale. Cf. Beirut. Impr. cath. cat. gén. 1935, p. 45, ʻ351.

The translator's "thèse complémentaire"--Universitairé de Paris.

"Ouvrages cités en référence": p. [1]-3.

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