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Ibn Khallikan's biographical dictionary / tr. from the Arabic by Bn Mac Guckin de Slane.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282.
- Series:
- Oriental Translation Fund (Series) ; no. 57.
- Oriental translation fund ; 57
- Standardized Title:
- Wafayāt al-aʻyān
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muslims--Biography.
- Islamic Empire--Biography--Dictionaries.
- Muslims--Biography--Dictionaries.
- Islamic Empire.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes ; 28 x 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Printed for the Oriental translation fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1843-71.
- Notes:
- English title preceded by title in Arabic at head of title: Kitāb wafayāt al-aʻyān.
- Translation of Wafayāt al-aʻyān.
- The first general Islamic biographical lexicon, not confined to groups of persons or geographical places, which contains in alphabetical order the lives of the most celebrated persons of Muslim history and literature, excepting the Prophet, the first four Caliphs, the other Companions and their immediate students. This monumental work was created between 1256 - 1274 CE, and was continually improved with marginal notes by the author.
- OCLC:
- 66744257
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