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Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune includes a book called the Kitab al-Ibar which is a handbook for desert survival on Arrakis, and occasionally quotes from the (fictional) book within the novel. Herbert was also clearly influenced by Khaldun's thesis that nomads such as the Berbers and Mongols are powerful and can overrun stagnant societies, but ...
S. Moinul Haq (transl.), Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir: Volume ll ( Kitab Bhavan, New Delhi, 1981)online link Abridged translations of Volumes 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 have been translated by Aisha Bewley and published under the titles of The Companions of Badr , The Men of Madina-II , The Scholars of Kufa , The Men of Madina-I , and The Women ...
Ibn Hazm [a] (Arabic: ابن حزم, romanized: Ibn Ḥazm; November 994 – 15 August 1064) was an Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, traditionist, jurist, philosopher, and theologian, born in the Córdoban Caliphate, present-day Spain. [6]
Tafsir Ibnu Abbas contains exegetical narrations from Ali ibn Abi Talha that were authenticated by Ibn Abbas, the 7th-century Islamic scholar and Sahabi (companion of Muhammad). [1] [2] [3] Muhammad Husayn al-Dhahabi from the Al Azhar University of Cairo, Egypt regarded Ibn Abi Talha as a reliable source of narrations regarding the views of Ibn ...
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 (Arabic: ابن النديم; died 17 September 995 or 998), was an important Arab Muslim bibliographer and biographer [2] of Baghdad who compiled the ...
Name and Birth: His name was Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Ubaid bin Sufyan bin Qais, Al-Qurashi, Al-Baghdadi. He was known by the kunya Abu Bakr and the title Ibn Abi Al-Dunya (which became so dominant that he became more famous by this title than his actual name).
Kitab al-Majmu‘ (Arabic: كتاب المجموع "The Book of the Collection") is a book which is claimed by some Sunni Muslims and former Alawites to be the main source of teaching of the ‘Alawi sect of Islam. [1]
The Book of Healing (Arabic: کتاب الشفاء, romanized: Kitāb al-Shifāʾ; Latin: Sufficientia; also known as The Cure or Assepha) is a scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by Abu Ali ibn Sīna (also known as Avicenna) from medieval Persia, near Bukhara in Maverounnahr.