Abstract In an approach which aims at reconstructing the concept of adab , we evoke in this study three figures thought (ʿAbdallah b. al-Muqaffaʿ m. 142/759, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib 132/750 and Abū ʿUtman Baḥr al-Ǧāḥiz 255/868), by comparing their styles intellectual attitudes same time field political system times. Our objective is to show how each studied takes care updates it. We speak about ...

La faune marine chez Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī : classification et transmission des savoirsOuvrage à caractère encyclopédique, le Kitāb al-Imtāʿ wa-l-muʾānasa (Livre du plaisir [intellectuel] de l’art tenir compagnie) évoque nombreux sujets qui préoccupaient les esprits l’époque classique xe siècle. est considéré comme l’un prosateurs arabes plus érudits, s’est intéressé plusieurs domaines. « 10e n...

manuscript no. 3447 in national library of tabriz is a persian treatise which covers arithmetic, geometry, algebra, hayʾa and the topic of “masses and distances. the redaction of the text has been finished in 670ah/1271ad but we don’t know anything about the author of the treatise. in the two first chapters of his treatise (on arithmetic) the unknown author draws upon ʿabd al-qāhir al-baghdādī’...

In his polemic composition al-Radd ‘alā Ibn al-Naghrīla al-Yahūdī, Abū Muḥammad ‘Alī b. Aḥmad Ḥazm al-Andalusī (994/1064 CE) attempts to demonstrate the Jews’ taḥrīf (falsification) of Torah by citing several examples. This article intends shed some light on an important aspect Ḥazm’s rhetoric as reflected in al-Naghrīla. I argue, however, that juxtaposing arguments with relevant Jewish sources...

shikārnāmeh-ye malikshāhī (the malikshāhī book of hunting) which is also known as shikārnāmeh-ye khusrawī, is a book prepared in the 5th ah/11th ad century by malikshāh’s order and niẓām al-mulk’s patronage. the book’s actual redaction is due to abū al-ḥassan niyshābūrī. this book refers to many other books on falconry and hunting (bāznāmeh and shikārnāmeh) especially the translation of the “sh...