The Fihrist
Subtitle: a 10th century AD survey of Islamic culture
By: Abū ʼl-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Nadīm ; edited and translated by Bayard Dodge.
Contributors: Dodge, Bayard, 1888-1972.
Publisher: Great Books of the Islamic World, Inc.; Distributed by KAZI Publications
Published: 1998
Place of publication: [S.l.]; Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1149
Subjects: Arabic literature -- Bio-bibliography.
Genres: Bio-bibliography.
Description: The Kitāb al-Fihrist (Arabic: كتاب الفهرست) (The Book Catalogue) is a compendium of the knowledge and literature of tenth-century Islam compiled by Ibn al-Nadim (d.998). It references approx. 10,000 books and 2,000 authors. A crucial source of medieval Arabic-Islamic literature, it preserves the names of authors, books and accounts otherwise entirely lost. Al-Fihrist is evidence of Ibn al-Nadim's thirst for knowledge among the sophisticated milieu of Baghdad's intellectual elite. As a record of civilisation transmitted through Muslim culture to the Western world, it provides unique classical material and links to other civilisations. (Wiki)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [869]-903) and indexes.
"Great Books of the Islamic World series"--P. viii.
"2"--Spine.