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5.0 out of 5 stars
Window into a 10th-century bookshop,
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This review is from: The Fihrist: a 10th Century AD Survey of Islamic Culture (Hardcover)
This is a book which the Medievalist can read for pure pleasure. Not only for the multitude of facts and stories gathered there, but because it offers some wonderful glimpses into the world of a 10th-century booktrader and the literary crossroads of Abbasid Baghdad. One will find small entries about philosophy and religion, rhetoric and literature, law and logics, science and pseudoscience, the first mention of "Thousand and One Night", dreams and fables about the ancient Greek philosophers - all lined up in a winding row like the houses in an old city street. But do not expect to read it from beginning to end - its basically a catalogue, and you will get the most out of it if you know what you are looking for.
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The Fihrist: a 10th Century AD Survey of Islamic Culture by Mu?ammad ibn Is??q Ibn al-Nad?m (Hardcover - October 1, 1998)
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