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The Authorship of Two Twelfth Century Transoxanian Biographical Dictionaries

The Authorship of Two Twelfth Century Transoxanian Biographical Dictionaries THE AUTHORSHIP OF TWO TWELFTH CENTURY TRANSOXANIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES BY J. WEINBERGER ANUSCRIPTS of two related twelfth century biographical dictio- naries 1, the Kitdb al-qandfima'rifat 'ulamd'Samarqand by Abu Hafs `Umar ibn Muhammad al-Nasafi (d.537/ 1 142) and the Muntahab kitdb al-qand ft ma'rifat `ulama' Samarqand by al-Nasafi's pupil Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Galil al-Samarqandi3, are located respectively in the Kftfphanesi Sfleymaniye, Istanbul and in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris4. In the 17th century Kdtib Çelebi mentioned the title of the work of al-Nasafi and noted the abridgement of it made by al- Samarqandi, but when modern scholars read this account they assumed that it referred to a history rather than a biographical dictionary. This 1 Biographical dictionaries have enjoyed increasing scholarly interest. For a clear discussion of the evolution of this literature see H.A.R. Gibb, «Islamic Biographical Literature,» Historians of the Middle East, ed. Bernard Lewis and P. M. Holt, Historical Writing on the Peoples of Asia (London, 1962), pp. 54-58. For discussions of their potential historical value and some interesting examples of their use see Richard W. Bulliet, «A Quantitative Approach to Medieval Muslim Biographical Dictionaries,» JESHO, XIII (1970), 195-211; idem, The Patricians of Nishapur : A Study in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Arabica Brill

The Authorship of Two Twelfth Century Transoxanian Biographical Dictionaries

Weinberger, J.
Arabica , Volume 33 (3): 369 – Jan 1, 1986
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THE AUTHORSHIP OF TWO TWELFTH CENTURY TRANSOXANIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES BY J. WEINBERGER ANUSCRIPTS of two related twelfth century biographical dictio- naries 1, the Kitdb al-qandfima'rifat 'ulamd'Samarqand by Abu Hafs `Umar ibn Muhammad al-Nasafi (d.537/ 1 142) and the Muntahab kitdb al-qand ft ma'rifat `ulama' Samarqand by al-Nasafi's pupil Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Galil al-Samarqandi3, are located respectively in the Kftfphanesi Sfleymaniye, Istanbul and in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris4. In the 17th century Kdtib Çelebi mentioned the title of the work of al-Nasafi and noted the abridgement of it made by al- Samarqandi, but when modern scholars read this account they assumed that it referred to a history rather than a biographical dictionary. This 1 Biographical dictionaries have enjoyed increasing scholarly interest. For a clear discussion of the evolution of this literature see H.A.R. Gibb, «Islamic Biographical Literature,» Historians of the Middle East, ed. Bernard Lewis and P. M. Holt, Historical Writing on the Peoples of Asia (London, 1962), pp. 54-58. For discussions of their potential historical value and some interesting examples of their use see Richard W. Bulliet, «A Quantitative Approach to Medieval Muslim Biographical Dictionaries,» JESHO, XIII (1970), 195-211; idem, The Patricians of Nishapur : A Study in

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