TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ibn al-Nadim,Abu al-Faradj Muhammad b.
TI  - The Fihrist: a 10th century AD survey of Islamic culture
T2  - "Great Books of the Islamic World series"
SN  - 1871031621
U1  - 920.00917671 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - [S.l.] ; [Chicago],  Chicago : 
PB  - Great Books of the Islamic World Inc. ; ,  Distributed by KAZI Publications
KW  - Arabic literature -- Bio-bibliography
KW  - Islamic history -- Early works to 1700
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes
N2  - Preface by Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani -- Foreword to 2nd edition by Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Foreword by W. T. H. Jackson -- Preface -- Introduction -- Summary of book -- Language and calligraphy -- The Torah, the Gospel, and other scripture -- The Qurʹān -- Grammarians of al-Basṛah -- Grammarians of al-Kūfah -- Grammarians of both schools -- Historians and genealogists -- Government officials who wrote books -- Court companions, singers, and jesters -- Poets of pre-Islām and the Umayyad Period -- Poets of the ʹAbbāsid Period -- Muslim sects ; The Muʹtazulah -- The Shīʹah, Imāmīyah, and Zaydīyah -- The Mujbirah and al-Hashawīyah -- The Khawārij -- Ascetics -- Mālik ibn Anas -- Abū Hanīfah -- Al-Shāfiʹī -- Dāʹūd ibn ʹAlī -- Legal authorities of the Shīʹah ; The Ismāʹīlīyah -- Jurists depending upon the Hadīth -- Al-Tabarī -- Jurists of the Shurāt -- Philosophy ; The Greek philosophers, al-Kindī and other scholars -- Mathematics and astronomy -- Medicine: Greek and Islamic -- Story tellers and stories -- Exorcists, jugglers, and magicians -- Miscellaneous subjects and fables -- The Ṣābians, Manichaeans, Dayṣānīyah, Khurramīyah, Marcionites, and other sects -- Information about India, Indochina, and China -- Appendix -- Glossary.China -- Appendix -- Glossary
ER  -