Ibn al-Nadim
932 –November 12, 990
Bookseller, Bibliographer, Historian, Writer
Lived 58 years
- Born in
- Baghdad
Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq an-Nadīm (Arabic: ابو الفرج محمد بن إسحاق النديم), also Ibn Abī Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Warrāq, and commonly known by the nasab (patronymic) Ibn an-Nadīm; c. 932 – c. 995) was an important Muslim bibliographer and biographer of Baghdad who compiled the encyclopedia Kitāb al-Fihrist (The Book Catalogue).
Notable works: Al-Fihrist
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