Editing the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadīm

Arabic and Islamic studies, whether of the Abbasid or later periods, suffer from the lack of reliable editions of fundamental resources such as al-Ṭabarī’s Tārīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk, al-Masʿūdī’s Murūj al-dhahab wa-maʿādin al-jawhar, Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī’s Kitāb al-Aghānī, and others, despite a...

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Main Author: Stewart, Devin J. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Journal of Abbasid Studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 159-205
Further subjects:B Encyclopedic tradition manuscripts bibliographies
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