THE NATURE OF THE ARAB UNIVERSAL BIBLIOGRAPHY KITAB AL–FIHRIST BY IBN AN-NADIM FROM 987 (377 HIJRAH) (A HIGHWAY OF SCIENCE AND INFORMATION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC ENCYCLOPEDIC INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE PLANET: HELLENISTIC EGYPT, LATE ANTIQUIT

Authors

  • S. Denchev University of Library Studies and Information Technologies in Sofia
  • A. Kumanova University of Library Studies and Information Technologies in Sofia
  • N. Kazanski Central Library at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31618/asj.2707-9864.2021.1.52.122

Keywords:

world universal bibliography: forms, encyclopedic infrastructure – Kitāb alFihrist (987) by Abū’l-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Abī Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq an-Nadīm al-Warrāq (932-990): classification scheme

Abstract

 For the goals of the e-library UNIVERSALICA has been presented the instruments of the world universal bibliography: 1) library (Hellenistic Egypt); 2) selective (Ancient Rome); 3) bio-bibliographic dictionaries  (Late antiquity – Germany on the eve of the Reformation); 4) bibliographic encyclopedia (Late antiquity, Early Middle Ages). : In this context, the multi-functional secondary documentary encyclopaedic work, which is an international and retrospective annotated bibliographic index, Kitāb al-Fihrist (987) by Abū’l-Faraj Muḥammad ibn AbīYa‘qūb ibn Isḥāq an-Nadīm al-Warrāq (932-990).

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