Proximity, Resemblance, Sidebars and Clusters: Ibn al-Nadim’s Organizational Principles in Fihrist 3.3

dc.contributor.author	Toorawa, Shawkat
dc.date.accessioned	2010-12-22T12:52:39Z
dc.date.available	2010-12-22T12:52:39Z
dc.date.issued	2010-12
dc.description.abstract	The Kitāb al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadīm (d. 380/990), one of the most important bio-bibliographical works in Arabic, is an invaluable source for the study of the first four centuries of Arabic writerly culture and of medieval Islamicate history. Ibn al-Nadīm divides his work into 10 parts (and 30 chapters), organised according to different fields of knowledge and scholarship. He also subdivides the notices, entries and titles very deliberately, typically chronologically. Here, I describe another organisational phenomenon discernible in the third chapter of the third part of the Fihrist, namely organization based on notions I term ‘proximity’ and ‘resemblance’, which yield ‘sidebars’ and ‘clusters.’ This organisation yields valuable information about the writerly culture of the 3rd/8th, 4th/9th and 5th/10th centuries.	en_US
dc.identifier.other	DOI: 10.1163/187783710X536725
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/21627
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Ibn al-Nadīm; Fihrist; biographical work; writerly culture; adab; singers; Ibn Abī Ṭāhir	en_US
dc.title	Proximity, Resemblance, Sidebars and Clusters: Ibn al-Nadim’s Organizational Principles in Fihrist 3.3	en_US
dc.type	article	en_US

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