Kitab al-Fihrist

GPTKB entity

Statements (28)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:book
gptkbp:author gptkb:Ibn_al-Nadim
gptkbp:contains biographical information
lists of works
summaries of books
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Abbasid_Caliphate
gptkbp:coversPeriod pre-Islamic to 10th century CE
gptkbp:fullTitle al-Fihrist li-asmā’ al-kutub wa’l-‘ulūm
gptkbp:genre gptkb:dictionary
reference
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Kitab al-Fihrist
gptkbp:influenced later Islamic bibliographies
gptkbp:language gptkb:Arabic
gptkbp:mainTheme knowledge and literature in the Islamic world
gptkbp:notableFor cataloguing all books available in Arabic in the 10th century
gptkbp:preservedIn various manuscripts
gptkbp:publicationDate 987
gptkbp:significance important source for history of Arabic literature
gptkbp:structure ten discourses (maqalat)
gptkbp:subject gptkb:religious_art
author
books
sciences
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:French
gptkb:German
English
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Abbasid_period
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6