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Bibliography

(1,660 words)

Author(s): Pearson, J.D.
In the present article the word is used in the sense of a systematically arranged list of books, compiled for the benefit of those who need to know what has been written on a particular subject. The outstanding achievement in Islamic bibliography to appear before the adoption of printing in Islamic territories is the Fihrist . Its author, Ibn al-Nadīm [ q.v.], a bookseller ( warrāḳ ) in Bag̲h̲dād, compiled the work in 377/987-8 in the form of a bibliographical history of literature, arranged in ten books, the first six being concerned wit…

Bibliographie

(1,679 words)

Author(s): Pearson, J.D.
— Dans le présent article, ce terme est employé dans le sens de listes d’ouvrages classés systématiquement, établies au profit de ceux qui ont besoin de connaître ce qui a été écrit sur un sujet donné. La plus belle réussite de islamique qui soit apparue avant l’adoption de l’imprimerie dans les pays musulmans, est le Fihrist. Son auteur, Ibn al-Nadīm [ q.v.], libraire ( warrāḳ) de Bag̲h̲dād, composa cet ouvrage, en 377/987-8, sous forme d’histoire bibliographique de la littérature en dix livres: les six premiers ont trait aux «écrits islamiques », tels que …

Maktaba

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Author(s): Heffening, W. | Pearson, J.D.
, library, is the word now normally used in the Arab world for this institution. In Iran kitāb-khāna is used (the entry-word for the article in EI2 ), and in modern Turkey kütüphane . Other equivalents are

al-Ḳurʾān

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Author(s): Welch, A.T. | Paret, R. | Pearson, J.D.
(a.), the Muslim scripture, containing the revelations recited by Muḥammad and preserved in a fixed, written form. ¶ 1. Etymology and Synonyms a. Derivation and Ḳurʾānic usage. The earliest attested usage of the term ḳurʾān is in the Ḳurʾān itself, where it occurs about 70 times with a variety of meanings. Most Western scholars have now accepted the view developed by F. Schwally ( Gesch . des Qor ., i, 33 f.) and others that ḳurʾān is derived from the Syriac ḳeryānā , “scripture reading, lesson”, as used in Christian liturgy (see for example the 6th cent…

al-Ḳurʾān

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Author(s): Welch, A.T. | Paret, R. | Pearson, J.D.
, le Livre Saint des Musulmans contenant les révélations transmises par Muḥammad puis rassemblées et conservées sous une forme fixée par l’écriture. ¶ Plan de l’article A. — Étymologie et synonymes a. — Origine et usage kurʾānique b. — Synonymes dans le Ḳurʾān. B. — Muḥammad et le Ḳurʾān. C. — Histoire du Ḳurʾān après 632. a. — La «collecte» du Ḳurʾān. b. — Variantes et recueils des Compagnons. c. — Établissement du texte et des lectures canoniques. D. — Structure a. — Les sourates et leurs titres b. …

Prefaces to the Original Edition

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Author(s): Storey, C.A. | Pearson, J.D. | Shepherd, V.M.
Original Preface to Vol. 1–1, section 1 by C.A. Storey A counterpart to Brockelmann’s Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur is urgently needed by students of Persian, and circ…