Al-Fihrist, the Glossary
The (كتاب الفهرست) (The Book Catalogue) is a compendium of the knowledge and literature of tenth-century Islam compiled by Ibn al-Nadim (d.998).[1]
Table of Contents
101 relations: Abbasid Caliphate, Abu Bakr az-Zubaydi, Abu Hanifa, Achaemenid Empire, Acre, Israel, Al-Andalus, Al-Kindi, Al-Maqrizi, Al-Shafi'i, Al-Tabari, Alchemy, Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world, Alfred Chester Beatty, Aloys Sprenger, Ancient Greek medicine, Ancient Greek philosophy, Arabic, Ardashir I, Aristotle, Asceticism, Astronomy, Atharism, Awail Al Maqalat, Baghdad, Bardaisan, Bayard Dodge, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Biographical dictionary, Buddhism, Cairo, Calligraphy, Chester Beatty Library, Dawud al-Zahiri, Devin J. Stewart, Dogma, Dublin, Genealogy, Gospel, Grammar, Grammarians of Basra, Grammarians of Kufa, Greek literature, Hadith, Hindus, History of Islam, Ibn al-Nadim, Imamate in Shia doctrine, Islam, Islamic Golden Age, Islamic poetry, ... Expand index (51 more) »
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- History books about Iraq
Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Abu Bakr az-Zubaydi
Abū Bakr az-Zubaydī (أبو بكر الزبيدي), also known as Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Madḥīj al-Faqīh and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan az-Zubaydī al-Ishbīlī (محمد بن الحسن الزبيدي الإشبيلي), held the title Akhbār al-fuquhā and wrote books on topics including philology, biography, history, philosophy, law, lexicology, and hadith.
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Abu Hanifa
Abu Hanifa (translit; September 699–767) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, ascetic,Pakatchi, Ahmad and Umar, Suheyl, "Abū Ḥanīfa", in: Encyclopaedia Islamica, Editors-in-Chief: Wilferd Madelung and, Farhad Daftary.
Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.
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Acre, Israel
Acre, known locally as Akko (עַכּוֹ) and Akka (عكّا), is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District of Israel.
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Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.
Al-Kindi
Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; Alkindus) was an Arab Muslim polymath active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist.
Al-Maqrizi
Al-Maqrīzī (المقريزي, full name Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-'Abbās Aḥmad ibn 'Alī ibn 'Abd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad al-Maqrīzī, تقي الدين أحمد بن علي بن عبد القادر بن محمد المقريزي; 1364–1442) was a medieval Egyptian historian and biographer during the Mamluk era, known for his interest in the Fatimid era, and the earlier periods of Egyptian history.
Al-Shafi'i
Al-Shafi'i (translit;;767–820 CE) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian, ascetic, and eponym of the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence.
Al-Tabari
Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد بْن جَرِير بْن يَزِيد ٱلطَّبَرِيّ; 839–923 CE / 224–310 AH), commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (ٱلطَّبَرِيّ), was a Sunni Muslim scholar, polymath, traditionalist, historian, exegete, jurist, and theologian from Amol, Tabaristan, present-day Iran.
Alchemy
Alchemy (from Arabic: al-kīmiyā; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, khumeía) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe.
Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world
Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world refers to both traditional alchemy and early practical chemistry (the early chemical investigation of nature in general) by Muslim scholars in the medieval Islamic world.
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Alfred Chester Beatty
Alfred Chester Beatty (7 February 1875 – 19 January 1968) was an American-British mining magnate and philanthropist.
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Aloys Sprenger
Aloys Sprenger (born 3 September 1813, in Nassereith, Tyrol; died 19 December 1893 in Heidelberg) was an Austrian Orientalist.
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Ancient Greek medicine
Ancient Greek medicine was a compilation of theories and practices that were constantly expanding through new ideologies and trials.
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Ancient Greek philosophy
Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC.
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Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Ardashir I
Ardashir I (𐭠𐭥𐭲𐭧𐭱𐭲𐭥; transl), also known as Ardashir the Unifier (180–242 AD), was the founder of the Persian Sasanian Empire.
Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
Asceticism
Asceticism is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals.
Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.
Atharism
Atharism (translit) is a school of theology in Sunni Islam which developed from circles of the, a group that rejected rationalistic theology in favor of strict textualism in interpretation the Quran and the hadith.
Awail Al Maqalat
Awail al Maqalat fi Madhahab al Mukhtarah or Principal theses of selected doctrines (اوائل المقالات), is a Shia doctrinal, theological book written by Shaykh Mufid.
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Baghdad
Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.
Bardaisan
Bardaisan (11 July 154 – 222 AD; ܒܪ ܕܝܨܢ, Bar Dayṣān; also Bardaiṣan), known in Arabic as ibn Dayṣān (ابن ديصان) and in Latin as Bardesanes, was a Syriac-speaking AssyrianProds Oktor Skjaervo.
Bayard Dodge
Bayard Dodge (1888–1972) was an American scholar of Islam and president of the American University in Beirut.
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Bibliothèque nationale de France
The ('National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as Richelieu and François-Mitterrand.
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Biographical dictionary
A biographical dictionary is a type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information. Al-Fihrist and biographical dictionary are biographical dictionaries.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Cairo
Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.
Calligraphy
Calligraphy is a visual art related to writing.
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Chester Beatty Library
The Chester Beatty Library, now known as the Chester Beatty, is a museum and library in Dublin.
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Dawud al-Zahiri
Dāwūd ibn ʿAlī ibn Khalaf al-Ẓāhirī (دَاوُدُ بنُ عَلِيِّ بنِ خَلَفٍ الظَّاهِرِيُّ; 815–883 CE / 199–269 AH) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian during the Islamic Golden Age, specialized in the study of Islamic law (sharīʿa) and the fields of hermeneutics, biographical evaluation, and historiography of early Islam.
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Devin J. Stewart
Devin J. Stewart is a professor of Islamic studies and Arabic language and literature.
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Dogma
Dogma, in its broadest sense, is any belief held definitively and without the possibility of reform.
Dublin
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.
Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages.
Gospel
Gospel (εὐαγγέλιον; evangelium) originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was reported.
Grammar
In linguistics, a grammar is the set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers.
Grammarians of Basra
The first Grammarians of Baṣra lived during the seventh century in Al-Baṣrah.
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Grammarians of Kufa
Al-Kūfah began as a military base ca.
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Greek literature
Greek literature dates back from the ancient Greek literature, beginning in 800 BC, to the modern Greek literature of today.
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Hadith
Hadith (translit) or Athar (أثر) is a form of Islamic oral tradition containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the prophet Muhammad.
Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
History of Islam
The history of Islam concerns the political, social, economic, military, and cultural developments of the Islamic civilization.
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Ibn al-Nadim
Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq an-Nadīm (ابو الفرج محمد بن إسحاق النديم), also Ibn Abī Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Warrāq, and commonly known by the nasab (patronymic) Ibn an-Nadīm (ابن النديم; died 17 September 995 or 998), was an important Muslim bibliographer and biographer of Baghdad who compiled the encyclopedia Kitāb al-Fihrist (The Book Catalogue).
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Imamate in Shia doctrine
In Shia Islam, the Imamah (إمامة) is a doctrine which asserts that certain individuals from the lineage of the Islamic prophet Muhammad are to be accepted as leaders and guides of the ummah after the death of Muhammad.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Islamic Golden Age
The Islamic Golden Age was a period of scientific, economic and cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.
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Islamic poetry
Islamic poetry is a form of spoken word written & recited by Muslims.
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Isma'ilism
Isma'ilism (translit) is a branch or sect of Shia Islam.
Istanbul
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.
Jabriyya
Jabriyya (also spelled Jabriyyah, Djabriyya or Jabriyah) was an Islamic theological group based on the belief that humans are controlled by predestination, without having choice or free will.
Jazzar Pasha
Ahmed Pasha al-Jazzar (أحمد باشا الجزّار, c. 1720–30s7 May 1804) was the Acre-based Ottoman governor of Sidon Eyalet from 1776 until his death in 1804 and the simultaneous governor of Damascus Eyalet in 1785–1786, 1790–1795, 1798–1799, and 1803–1804.
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Jester
A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during royal court.
Kharijites
The Kharijites (translit, singular) were an Islamic sect which emerged during the First Fitna (656–661).
Khosrow I
Khosrow I (also spelled Khosrau, Khusro or Chosroes; 𐭧𐭥𐭮𐭫𐭥𐭣𐭩; New Persian: خسرو), traditionally known by his epithet of Anushirvan (انوشيروان "the Immortal Soul"), was the Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 531 to 579.
Khurramites
The Khurramites (خرمدینان Khurram-Dīnân, meaning "those of the Joyful Religion") were an IranianW.
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Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
Kufa
Kufa (الْكُوفَة), also spelled Kufah, is a city in Iraq, about south of Baghdad, and northeast of Najaf.
Latin literature
Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language.
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Magic (supernatural)
Magic is an ancient practice rooted in rituals, spiritual divinations, and/or cultural lineage—with an intention to invoke, manipulate, or otherwise manifest supernatural forces, beings, or entities in the natural world.
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Malik ibn Anas
Malik ibn Anas (translit; –795) was an Islamic scholar and traditionalist who is the eponym of the Maliki school, one of the four schools of Islamic jurisprudence in Sunni Islam.
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Manichaeism
Manichaeism (in New Persian آیینِ مانی) is a former major world religion,R.
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Marcionism
Marcionism was an early Christian dualistic belief system that originated with the teachings of Marcion of Sinope in Rome around 144 AD.
Mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.
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Medicine in the medieval Islamic world
In the history of medicine, "Islamic medicine" Also known as "Arabian medicine" is the science of medicine developed in the Middle East, and usually written in Arabic, the lingua franca of Islamic civilization.
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Mu'tazilism
Mu'tazilism (translit, singular translit) was an Islamic sect that appeared in early Islamic history and flourished in Basra and Baghdad.
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Naskh (script)
Naskh is a smaller, round script of Islamic calligraphy.
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Nikephoros I of Constantinople
Nikephoros I or Nicephorus I (Greek: Νικηφόρος; c. 758 – 5 April 828) was a Byzantine writer and patriarch of Constantinople from 12 April 806 to 13 March 815.
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One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights (أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. Al-Fihrist and One Thousand and One Nights are Abbasid literature.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Persian literature
Persian literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures.
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Persians
The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran.
Plato
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
Pyramid
A pyramid is a structure whose visible surfaces are triangular in broad outline and converge toward the top, making the appearance roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense.
Quran
The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).
Rajasthan
Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.
Religion in China
Religion in China is diverse and most Chinese people are either non-religious or practice a combination of Buddhism and Taoism with a Confucian worldview, which is collectively termed as Chinese folk religion.
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Reynold A. Nicholson
Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, FBA (18 August 1868 – 27 August 1945), or R. A.
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Sabians
The Sabians, sometimes also spelled Sabaeans or Sabeans, are a mysterious religious group mentioned three times in the Quran (as الصابئون, in later sources الصابئة), where it is implied that they belonged to the 'People of the Book'.
Sanskrit literature
Sanskrit literature broadly comprises all literature in the Sanskrit language.
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Süleymaniye Mosque
The Süleymaniye Mosque (Süleymaniye Camii) is an Ottoman imperial mosque located on the Third Hill of Istanbul, Turkey.
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Schools of Islamic theology
Schools of Islamic theology are various Islamic schools and branches in different schools of thought regarding creed.
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Sect
A sect is a subgroup of a religious, political, or philosophical belief system, usually an offshoot of a larger group.
Sharia
Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.
Shaykh Tusi
Shaykh Tusi (شیخ طوسی), full name Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi (Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī), known as Shaykh al-Ta'ifah (Shaykh al-Ṭāʾifah) was a prominent Persian scholar of the Twelver school of Shia Islam.
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Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
Shura
Shura (lit) can for example take the form of a council or a referendum.
Sorcery (goetia)
Goetia is a type of European sorcery, often referred to as witchcraft, that has been transmitted through grimoires—books containing instructions for performing magical practices.
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Superstition
A superstition is any belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural, attributed to fate or magic, perceived supernatural influence, or fear of that which is unknown.
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Syriac language
The Syriac language (Leššānā Suryāyā), also known natively in its spoken form in early Syriac literature as Edessan (Urhāyā), the Mesopotamian language (Nahrāyā) and Aramaic (Aramāyā), is an Eastern Middle Aramaic dialect. Classical Syriac is the academic term used to refer to the dialect's literary usage and standardization, distinguishing it from other Aramaic dialects also known as 'Syriac' or 'Syrian'.
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Syriac literature
Syriac literature is literature in the Syriac language.
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Tafsir
Tafsir (tafsīr; Explanation) refers to exegesis, usually of the Quran.
Tonk, India
Tonk is a district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
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Torah
The Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
Umayyad Caliphate
The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty.
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Umayyad state of Córdoba
The Umayyad state of Córdoba was an Arab Islamic state ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 756 to 1031.
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William McGuckin de Slane
William McGuckin (also Mac Guckin and MacGuckin), known as Baron de Slane (Belfast, Ireland, 12 August 1801 – Paris, France, 4 August 1878) was an Irish orientalist.
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Zaydism
Zaydism is one of the three main branches of Shia Islam that emerged in the eighth century following Zayd ibn Ali‘s unsuccessful rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate.
See also
10th-century encyclopedias
987
Abbasid literature
- Abu al-Fath al-Busti
- Al-Fihrist
- Book of Ingenious Devices
- Graeco-Arabic translation movement
- House of Wisdom
- Jamharat Ash'ar al-Arab
- Kalīla wa-Dimna
- Kitab al-Buldan (Ya'qubi book)
- Kitab al-Hamasah
- Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Khara'iti
- Nihayat al-arab fi akhbar al-Furs wa'l-'Arab
- One Thousand and One Nights
- Shu'ubiyya
- Tarikh al-Yaqubi
Arabic non-fiction books
- Al-Fihrist
- Alberuni's India
- Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis
- Book of the Zanj
- Funj Chronicle
- Kawkab al-durriya li-akhbar Ifriqiya
- Kitab al-Aghani
- Kitāb al-Diryāq
- Lisan al-Arab
History books about Iraq
- Al-Baghdadiyun, Akhbaruhum Wa Majalisuhum
- Al-Fihrist
- Crisis in Kirkuk
- The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy or Division?
- The Greatness That Was Babylon
- The Meadows of Gold
- The Might That Was Assyria
- Thieves of Baghdad
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Fihrist
Also known as Al Fihrist, Al-Fehrest, Al-Fihrist al-Nadim, Al-Fihrist of Isḥāq al-Nadīm, Der Fihrist des Ibn an-Nadīm, Fehrest, Fihrist, Fihrist (Ibn al-Nadim), Kitab al-Fihrist, Kitab al-Fihrist (book), Kitāb al-Fihrist, The Fihrist, The Fihrist of al-Nadim, The Fihrist of al-Nadīm.
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