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Islamo-Biblica in Mubtadā’ (“Genesis-Beginnngs”), Awā’il (“Originations”) ...

Islamo -Biblica in Mubtadā’ (“Genesis-Beginnngs”).

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Awā’il (“Originations”,"First Occurrences"), Mu`ammarun (the “Long-Lived”) and related literatures.

الأوائل

Awā'il  ("The Progenitors of Things"),

 Mu`ammarun ("The Long-Lived") and Ajā'ib ("Creational Wonders")

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Awā'il  ("The Progenitors of Things")

أبو هلال العسكري

al-`Askarī, Abū Hilāl (d. after 395/1005),

Kitāb al-awāʼil - li-Abī Hilāl al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sahl al-ʻAskarī ; ḥaqqaqahu wa ʻallaqa ʻalayhi Muḥammad al-Sayyid al-Wakīl. Madinah al-munawwarah : Asʻad Tarābizunī al-Ḥusaynī, 1385/‬1966. 351pp.‬

  • al-Awā'il.  2 vols. ed. Muhammad al-Misrī and Walīd Qaṣṣāb. Damascus: Wazarat al-Thaqafa , 1975.

  • Kitāb al-awā'il, 2 vols. ed. Walīd Qaṣṣāb and Muhammad al-Misrī; Riyad: Dār al-`Ulūm lil-Tibā`a wa’l-Nashr, 1980-81.

  • al-Awāʼil / li-Abī Hilāl al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sahl al-ʻAskarī. Beirut : Dār al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah, 1987. 310pp.

  • سلسلة المختار من التراث العربي / من الاوائل  /  , ed. Muhammad al-Misri. Damascus: Wazara  al-Thaqafa

منشورات وزارة الثقافة-دمشق 

  • Kitāb Akhbār al-muṣaḥḥifīn / ta'līf Abī Aḥmad al-Ḥasan ibn `Abd Allāh al-`Askarī ; `uniya bi-taḥqīqihi Ibrāhīm Ṣāliḥ. Dimashq : Dār al-Bashā'ir, 1416 / ‬1995.  108pp.

Abi al-Qāsim Sulaymān al-Ṭabarānī (d. XXX/ XXXX)

Kitab al-Awā'il.  ed. Marwan  al-Atiyya Shaykh al-Rāshid. Beirut: Dar al-Jil., 1413/1992. (235pp.).*

 

al-Suyūṭī, Jalāl a-Dīn `Abd al-Raḥman (d. 911/1505)

السيوطي/جلال الدين عبد الرحمن

وسائل في مسامرة الأوائل ويليه = كتاب الأوائل/ للطبراني

  • الأوائل

  •  al-Awā'il ..    ed. Muhamad al-Sa`id  ibn Basyuni Zaghlul. Beirut: Dar al-kutub al-`ilmiyya

 ابن الشحنة

 روض المناظر في علم الأوائل والأواخر

Mu`ammarūn ("The Long-Lived")

Abū Ḥātim al-Sijistānī (d. 255/869). Early Baṣran philologist.

  • al-Mu`ammarūn ("The Long-Lived")

General and secondary scholarship

Rosenthal,  Franz.

Awā’il  EI2 

McCants, William (Ph. D Thesis)

Add

Bosworth, C. E.

  • 1968 The Laṭā`if al-ma`ārif of Tha`ālibī. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press.

  • 1982 `The Concept of Dhimma in Early Islam.’ In Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire. 1: 37-55. Ed. B. Braude and B. Lewis. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc.

  • 1989 Bahā' al-Dīn al-'Āmilī and his Literary Anthologies, Manchester: University of Manchester (= Journal of Semitic Studies, Monograph No.10).

Mubtadā’ (“Genesis-Beginnngs”) texts and related literatures.

The Arabic root B-D-`  indicates origination or beginning, the genesis of creation, humanity and things in the cosmos and world(s) of creation. 

Awā’il (“Originations”, "First Occurrences"), texts and related literatures.

al-ʿAskarī , Abū Hilāl al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sahl ibn Saʿīd ibn Yaḥyā ibn Mihrān (d.c. 395/1005. Arab philologist

  • Kitāb al-Awāʾil abridged by al-Suyūṭī in Kitāb at-Wasāʾil , Partly edited by Gosche in Das Kitāb al-Awāʾil, eine literarhistor. Studie, Festgabe zur 25. Versammlung Deutscher Philologen , Halle 1867. See Brockelmann, “al-ʿAskarī”, in: EI, First Edition

Jalāl-ad-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn Abī-Bakr al- Suyūṭī (d. XXX / XXXX)

  • Kitāb al-Wasāʼil fī musāmarat al-awāʼil.
  • الوسائل فى مسامرة الأوائل  = al-Wasāʼil fī musāmarat al-awāʼil. Abū-Hājir Muḥammad al-Saʻīd Ibn Basyūnī Zaġlūl; ed. Sulaimān Ibn-Aḥmad al-Ṭabarānī... Beirut : Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyah, 1986, 205 pages.
  • 1990. al-Wasāʼil fī musāmarat al-awāʼil. al-Kuwait : Makt. Dār Ibn-Qutaiba, 1990. 251 pages.

Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn Zayd Jarāʻī  

  •   Kitāb al-Awāʾil . ʻĀdil al- Furaiǧāt /Hayā Muḥammad Dawsarī. Beirut: Dār al-Īmān, 1988 + al-Kuwait Dār Ibn-an-Nadīm, 1997.

Katherine H Lang,

  • Awa'il in early Arabic historiography : beginnings and identity in the middle Abbasid empire. PhD thesis., University of Chicago, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, December 1997.ix, 195 pages.

 William F. McCants

  • Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam. Princeton University Press. 2012.

Mu`ammarun (the “Long-Lived”) texts and related literatures.