Kitāb Ṭabaqāt al-umam
By: par Abu l-Qāsim ibn Ṣāid al-Andalusī (m. 462/1069-70) ; texte par Louis Cheikho ; traduction par Régis Blachère
Contributors: Cheikho, Louis, 1859-1927; Blachère, Régis, 1900-1973
Series: Publications of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science -- Islamic Philosophy -- 1; Manshư̄rāt Mahad Tārīkh al-Ulư̄m al-Arabīyah wa-al-Islāmīyah -- 1
Publisher: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: fre; ara
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9783829860017
Subjects: Medieval Science; Science; History; Islamic learning and scholarship
Other titles: K. Ṭabaqāt al-umam; Kitâb Ṭabakât al-umam; Livre des catégories des nations; Ṭabakât al-umam
Work titles: Ṭabaqāt al-umam
Notes: Limited ed. of 100 copies.

Includes t.p. in Arabic.

Reprint. 1st work originally published: Paris: Larose, 1935 ; 2nd work originally published: Bayrư̄t : al-Maṭbaah al-Kāthư̄līkīyah lil-Ābā al-Yasư̄īyīn, 1912.

Includes Régis Blachère's French translation of Ṣāid ibn Aḥmad al-Andalusī's Ṭabaqāt al-umam entitled Kitâb tabakât al-umam and Louis Cheikho's edition of the original Arabic text.

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

The compendium known as "Tabakât al-umam" is derived in part from the ancients, or from earlier writers like al-Fărăbī. 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 Mư̄sā, 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, #351.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.