Ibn Al Nadim
Ibn al-Nadim (Abu al-Faraj Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Muhammad ibn Ishaq), (died on 17 September 995 or 998 ) is a scholar and bibliographer Shiite , author of Kitab al-Fihrist , a complete index, in the words the author himself, all the Arabic books of that time. Very little is known of his life, not even the origin of his nickname al-Nadim, which means the partner of an important person, perhaps even the caliph.
He lived mainly in Baghdad , in what is now Iraq. Bookseller and calligrapher by trade, he copied manuscripts for the command, a post he inherited from his father. His teachers were al-Siraf (d. 978-9), al-Munadhdhim (d. 963) and the philosopher al-Mantiq. He belonged to the circle of the son of Ali ibn Isa, the good vizier of Banu al-pharrah, he rents for his deep knowledge of logic and science Greek , Persian and Indian. Ibn al-Nadim also met the Christian philosopher Ibn al-Khammar. None of his teachers was not a Sunni Orthodox. They shared an admiration for the philosophy , particularly that of Aristotle , as well as Greek and Indian science they stood for large and for their tolerance.
His main work published in 938 is the Kitab al-Fihrist who, after his brief preface, is intended as a index of all books written in Arabic, whether by Arabs or non-Arabs. There before his work as books identifying poetry (Tabaqat).
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