Category
page 1Abbasid literature
House of Wisdom
library, translation institute and research center in medieval Baghdad
Kalila and Demna
collection of fables
Translation Movement
movement that resulted in the translation of texts from various languages into Arabic
Al-Fihrist
The '''' () (The Book Catalogue'') is a compendium of the knowledge and literature of tenth-century Islam compiled by Ibn al-Nadim (d. 998). It references approx. 10,000 books and 3,500 to 3,700 authors, despite being incomplete. A crucial source of medieval Arabic-Islamic literature, it preserves the names of authors, books and accounts otherwise entirely lost. is evidence of Ibn al-Nadim's thirst for knowledge among the sophisticated milieu of Baghdad's intellectual elite. As a record of civilisation transmitted through Muslim culture to the Western world, it provides unique classical materi
Abu Al-Fath Al-Busti
Ghaznavid poet
The book of lands
Arabic geography book
Tarikh al-Yaqubi
classic Islamic history book

Kitab al-Hamasah
book by Abu Tammam

Book of Ingenious Devices
9th-century Islamic scientific text by the Banū Mūsā brothers
al-Nihāyah fī Gharīb al-ḥadīth wa-al-athar
book by Ibn al-Athīr Abū al-Saʻādāt
Jāmiʻ al-uṣūl fī aḥādīth al-Rasūl
book by Ali ibn al-Athir
Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Khara'iti