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Title

  • The Catalog.

Summary

  • Abu al-Faraj Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn al-Nadim, also known simply as Ibn al-Nadim (935--95 AD), was an Arab author, bookseller, and calligrapher. He lived in Baghdad, and briefly in Mosul, during the middle Abbasid era and, like his father, made a living from copying manuscripts for sale. Al-Fihrist, sometimes also referred to as Kitab al-fihrist (The catalog), is an index of all books written at the time in Arabic, by both Arab and non-Arab authors. It contains ten discourses. The subjects they cover are the scriptures holy to Muslims, Jews, and Christians, the hadith, history, law, biography, poetry, magic, and alchemy. The author often mentions the size of a book and the number of pages so copyists would not cheat buyers by creating shorter versions. He refers often to copies made by famous calligraphers, bibliophiles, and other libraries and describes an auction and the trade in books.

Names

  • Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, flourished 987 Author.

Created / Published

  • Cairo : Rahmaniya Printing Press, [1900 to 1999]

Headings

  • -  Iraq
  • -  900 to 999

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 24 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666186

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  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Ibn Al-Nadīm, Muḥammad Ibn Isḥāq, Flourished 987 Author. The Catalog. [Cairo: Rahmaniya Printing Press, to 1999, 1900] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666186/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Al-Nadīm, M. I. I. (1900) The Catalog. [Cairo: Rahmaniya Printing Press, to 1999] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666186/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Al-Nadīm, Muḥammad Ibn Isḥāq, Flourished 987 Author. The Catalog. [Cairo: Rahmaniya Printing Press, to 1999, 1900] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666186/>.