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المعارف

Author: أبو محمد عبد الله بن مسلم بن قتيبة الدينوري (المتوفى: 276هـ) (d. 276)

About this work

المعارف لابن قتيبة الدينوري هو مؤلف تاريخي يجمع بين سيرة الكاتب وتفاصيل عن نسبه ومؤلفاته، مع عرض شامل للعلماء والأدباء والفقهاء الذين نشطوا في عصر الخلفاء العباسيين. يتناول الكتاب كذلك مظاهر الحياة العلمية والأدبية في بغداد، ويستعرض مناهج التأليف الجامع التي سادت في ذلك الزمان، مع إشارة إلى الظروف السياسية والاجتماعية التي أحاطت بالحقبة. كما يحتوي على أقسام مخصصة لدراسات القرآن من حيث الغريب والمشكلة والمعاني والقراءات وإعرابها.

Translation

Al-Ma’arif by Ibn Qutaybah Al-Dinuri is a historical work that combines the writer’s biography and details about his lineage and writings, with a comprehensive presentation of the scholars, writers, and jurists who were active in the era of the Abbasid caliphs. The book also deals with aspects of scientific and literary life in Baghdad, and reviews the approaches to comprehensive writing that prevailed at that time, with reference to the political and social circumstances that surrounded the era. It also contains sections dedicated to studies of the Qur’an in terms of the strange, the problematic, meanings, readings, and their parsing.

Topics covered

  • introduction
  • Introduction to the second edition
  • The sons of the Abyssinians from the Quraysh
  • Fix the inkwell
  • Proven flowery
  • Introduction to investigation
  • (1) The age of the author:
  • Caliphs and the scientific and literary renaissance:
  • Aspects of literary and scientific life in Baghdad:
  • Among the literary narrators:
  • From the grammarians:
  • From linguists:
  • Among the historians:
  • Among the geographers:
  • Among the theologians:
  • Among the hadith scholars:
  • Among the philosophers and logicians:
  • Summary of scientific life:
  • (2) The life of the author Ibn Qutaybah
  • rate:
  • His birth and death:
  • Its relation to the dinore:
  • His upbringing and elders:
  • His disciples:
  • His writings:

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