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NADIM (Abulfaraj Mahommed See also:ibn Ishaq ibn abi Ya`qub un-Nadim] (d. 995) , of See also:Bagdad, the author of one of the most interesting See also:works in Arabic literature, the Fihrist ul-' Ulf-1m (" See also:list of the books of all nations that were to be found in Arabic ") with notices of the authors and other particulars, carried down to the See also:year 988. A See also:note in the See also:Leiden MS. places the See also:death of the author eight years later. Of his See also:life we know. nothing. His See also:work gives us a See also:complete picture of the most active intellectual See also:period of the Arabian See also:empire. He traces the rise and growth of See also:philology and belles-lettres, of See also:theology, orthodox and heretical, of See also:law and See also:history, of See also:mathematics and See also:astronomy, of See also:medicine and See also:alchemy; he does not despise the histories of knights errant, the fables of Kalila and Dimna, the facetiae of the " boon companions," the works of magic and See also:divination. But to us no See also:part of his work is more interesting than his See also:account of the beliefs of sects and peoples beyond See also:Islam. Here, fortunately, still more than in other parts of his work, he goes beyond the functions of the See also:mere cataloguer; he tells what he learned of See also:China from a See also:Christian missionary of Nejran, of See also:India from a description of its See also:religion compiled for the Barmecide Yahya; his full accounts of the See also:Sabians of See also:Harran and of the doctrines of Mani are of the first importance for the historian of See also:Asiatic religions. Imperfect See also:manuscripts of the Fihrist exist in See also:Paris, Leiden and See also:Vienna. The See also:text was prepared for publication by G. Fliigel, and edited after his death by J. Rodiger and A.

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Muller (2 vols., See also:Leipzig, 1871-1872). See also:Flugel had already given a full See also:analysis of the work in the See also:Journal of the See also:German See also:Oriental Society, vol. xiii. (1859), pp. 559-65o; cf. E. G. See also:Browne, A See also:Literary History of See also:Persia (See also:London, 1902), pp. 383-387. T. Houtsma supplied a lacuna in Flugel's edition in the Vienna Oriental Journal, vol. iv. pp. 217 sqq.

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