The concept of bibliography at Ibn al-Nadim in his Fihrist

Abstract

The approach taken by Ibn al-Nadim in the preparation of the scientific material for the book (the index) is what is now called bibliographic work, but that these were not the label has appeared in the fourth century or shortly thereafter. But she had used artistic expressions other meet in their work term working bibliographic, such as a word (Index) used by Ibn al-Nadim and Tusi in the east, and the word (index) used by Mohammed bin good Seville and the other in the west of the Arab world (1), which required research and definition word bibliography and index comparing the word used by Ibn al-Nadim for the purpose of standing on the exact scientific meaning to both words and thus to know whether it was possible to use the term work Albblograve - in line with the requirements of the times - to refer to what he had done from Ibn al-Nadim Activity