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The beginnings of an Annotated Bibliography concerning all things related to Medieval Islam History and its Golden Age. This bibliography is ongoing. More research is continuing. I am currently organizing over 600 book titles and links to articles and videos. I hope you will revisit this website often.

My Goal for this Blog:
This Medieval Islamic History Blog will list an Annotated Bibliography of books and articles I have discovered from over 16 years of scholarly research. There are also great links to videos! Please feel free to use the information I have gathered here for your personal knowledge, teachings and/or research. It is meant to educate and assist those who wish to learn and understand Medieval Islamic History. I encourage educators around the globe to explore these resources and spread this knowledge to your students.

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Medieval Islamic History Annotated Bibliography Starts Here. 


Ibn al-Nadim's was the first book cataloger/bibliographer and wrote the first extensive catalog of books called the al-Fihrist in 988 AD. In the introduction of the catalog he wrote:

This is "an Index of the books of all nations, Arabs and non-Arabs alike, which are extant in the Arabic language and script, on every branch of knowledge; comprising information as to their compilers and the classes of their authors, together with the genealogies of those persons, the dates of their birth, the length of their lives, the times of their death, the places to which they belonged, their merits and their faults, since the beginning or every science that has been invented down to the present epoch : namely, the year 377 of the Hijra." 

You can read the al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim here:
The Fihrist of al-Nadim: A Tenth Century Survey of Muslim Culture

                                             
Articles about the History of Medieval Islamic Libraries
The Muslim Heritage Website is a fabulous place to explore. It contains endless articles about everything you want to know about Muslim History. A great place to begin your research. http://www.muslimheritage.com/

A great introduction to Islamic Contributions to the West is the following book:

1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World:
AL-HASSANI, S. T. S., WOODCOCK, E., & SAOUD, R. (2007). 1001 inventions: Muslim Heritage in our world. Manchester, Great Britain, Foundation for Science Technology and Civilization.

Reference in the back of the book. Followed by: Personalities of the Past, Europe's leading Minds, Timeline, Map of Major Muslim Contributions, Authors and Treatises (The titles of manuscripts, treatises, and books of some of the Muslim scholars mentioned in this book, and details of where some of these can be found). Further reading. A Thousand Years of Scholarship: Essential Information including names, birth, and death dates, place of birth or work and profession of many of the individuals mentioned in 1001 Inventions. Glossary, Index & Image Credits.

From the Publisher:
1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization takes readers on a journey through years of forgotten Islamic history to discover one thousand fascinating scientific and technological inventions still being used throughout the world today. Take a look at all of the discoveries that led to the great technological advances of our time; engineering, early medicinal practices, and the origins of cartography are just a few of the areas explored in this book.

1001 Inventions provides a unique insight into a significant time period in Muslim history that has been looked over by much of the world. A time where discoveries were made and inventions were created that have impacted how Western civilization and the rest of the world lives today. The book will cover seven aspects of life relatable to everyone, including home, school, hospital, market, town, world and universe.

for the following digitized books:
*The Emergence of Renaissance: Cultural Interactions 
between Europeans & Muslims
*Beyond A Thousand And One Nights: a literature sampler
*Images of the Orient: Nineteenth Century European Travelers to Muslim Lands
and more

found at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland

LYONS, J. (2009). The house of wisdom: how the Arabs transformed Western civilization. New York, Bloomsbury Press.

The following YouTube video presents a lecture by scholar Jonathan Lyons, author of House of Wisdom: How the Arabs transformed Western Civilization & Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism


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