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S. Brentjes

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Stories of Origin

This section presents extracts from Ibn al-Nadīm’s Kitāb al-Fihrist, usually translated as “The Catalogue,” a text about the origins of three languages and their scripts—Arabic, Syriac, and Persian—which were relevant to the flourishing intellectual life in the Abbasid caliphate from 750 CE. In each of the three cases,...

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