Although he wrote poetry, also an anthology of verses on the monasteries of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and a genealogical work, his fame rests upon his Book of Songs ( Kitab al-Aghani ).

The game does not appear in literature until late in the 10th century when the author Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani mentioned Qirkat in his 24 volume work Kitab al-Aghani (" Book of Songs ").

* The Arabic Kitab al-Aghani

One of the principal manuscript sources used is the great Kitab al-Aghani of Abu al-Faraj, which has since been published ( 20 vols., Boulak, 1868 ) in Egypt ; but no publication of texts can deprive the Essai, which is now very rare, of its value as a trustworthy guide through a tangled mass of tradition.

Illustration from Kitab al-Aghani ( Book of Songs ), 1216-20, by Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, a collection of songs by famous musicians and Arab poets.

Many stories about these early singers were retold in the Kitab al-Aghani or Book of Songs by Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani.

The titles of 105 of his works are mentioned in the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, and his Book of Days is the basis of parts of the history of Ibn al-Athir and of the Kitab al-Aghani of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, but nothing of his ( except a song ) seems to exist now in an independent form.

His account of the genealogies of the Arabs is continually quoted in the Kitab al-Aghani.

* Kitab al-Aghani, vol.

See the Preface to Ahlwardt's Abu Nowas ( Greifswald, 1861 ), pp. 13-18, and the many stories of his life in the Kitab al-Aghani, V. 2-49.

The besiegers met with no success until one day Harith captured Samuel's son, who, according to the story in the " Kitab al-Aghani ," was returning from the chase.

:* Kitab al-Aghani, Index ;

* Kitab al-Shifa ( The Book of Healing ).

* Kitab al-Najat ( The Book of Salvation ), trans.

F. Rahman, Avicenna's Psychology: An English Translation of Kitab al-Najat, Book II, Chapter VI with Historical-philosophical Notes and Textual Improvements on the Cairo Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952.

Illustration from Kitab al-aghani ( Book of Songs ), 1216-20, by Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, a collection of songs by famous musicians and Arab poets.

Wilfred Cantwell Smith traced the story from a 2nd to 4th century Sanskrit Mahayana Buddhist text, to a Manichee version, which then found its way into Muslim culture as the Arabic Kitab Bilawhar wa-Yudasaf ( Book of Bilawhar and Yudasaf ), which was current in Baghdad in the 8th century.

In his Kitab al-Asrar ( Book of Secrets ), the physician and chemist Razi described two methods for the production of kerosene, termed naft abyad (" white naphtha "), using an apparatus called an alembic.

Books on the subject included the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, which not only described many different minerals but also explained many of their properties, and Kitab al Jawahir ( Book of Precious Stones ) by Muslim scientist Al Biruni.

According to Toufic Fahd, around the 9th century, Al-Dinawari, an Iranian Kurdish naturalist, wrote the Kitab al-Nabat ( Book of Plants ), in which he deals with the application of meteorology to agriculture during the Muslim Agricultural Revolution.

In the early 11th century, Alhazen ( Ibn al-Haytham ) wrote the Book of Optics ( Kitab al-manazir ) in which he explored reflection and refraction and proposed a new system for explaining vision and light based on observation and experiment.

* Publication of The Book of Healing ( Arabic: کتاب الشفاء Kitab Al-Shifaʾ, Latin: Sufficientia ), a comprehensive scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by the Persian polymath Avicenna ( Abū ʿAlī ibn Sīnā ).

Discovered by scholar Nabia Abbott in 1948, it bears the title Kitab Hadith Alf Layla (" The Book of the Tale of the Thousand Nights ") and the first few lines of the book in which Dinazad asks Shirazad ( Scheherazade ) to tell him stories.

One of his most prominent achievements is his book, Kitab Ash-Shatranj ( Book of Chess ), which was the first scientific book ever written on chess strategy.

The Kitab al-Magall (" Book of the Rolls ", considered part of Clementine literature ) and the Cave of Treasures mention a tradition that after being founded by the children of Saba ( son of Joktan ), there was a succession of sixty female rulers up until the time of Solomon.

According to an early Arabic work known as Kitab al-Magall or the Book of Rolls ( part of Clementine literature ), Harran was one of the cities built by Nimrod, when Peleg was 50 years old.

In 1 of his 4 schemes, in his 2-volume Kitab al-musiki al-kabir ( Big Music Book, or Big Book of Music ) he identified 5 classes, in order of ranking, as follows: the human voice, the bowed strings ( the rebab ) and winds, plucked strings, percussion, and dance, the 1st 3 pointed out as having continuous tone.

Ibn Sina, Persian scholar of the 11th century, presented a scheme in his Kitab al-najat ( Book of the delivery ), making the same distinction, having 2 classes.

In his Kitab al-shifa ( Book of soul healing ), he proposed another taxonomy, this one having 5 classes: fretted instruments, unfretted ( open ) stringed, lyres and harps, bowed stringed, wind ( reeds and some other woodwinds, such as the flute and bagpipe ), other wind instrumets such as the organ, and the stick-struck santur ( a board zither ).

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, considered the greatest epic of Italian literature, derived many features of and episodes about the hereafter directly or indirectly from Arabic works on Islamic eschatology: the Hadith and the Kitab al-Miraj ( translated into Latin in 1264 or shortly before as Liber Scale Machometi, " The Book of Muhammad's Ladder ") concerning Muhammad's ascension to Heaven, and the spiritual writings of Ibn Arabi.

The Book of Healing ( Arabic: کتاب الشفاء Kitab Al-Shifaʾ, Latin: Sufficientia ) is a scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by Abū Alī ibn Sīnā ( Avicenna ) from Asfahana, near Bukhara in Greater Persia.

The first detailed studies on the subject of historiography and the first critiques on historical methods appeared in the works of the Arab Ash ' ari polymath Ibn Khaldun ( 1332 – 1406 ), who is regarded as the father of historiography, cultural history, and the philosophy of history, especially for his historiographical writings in the Muqaddimah ( Latinized as Prolegomena ) and Kitab al-Ibar ( Book of Advice ).

Sa ' adya's Emunoth ve-Deoth (" Beliefs and opinions ") was originally called Kitab al-Amanat wal-l ' tikadat (" Book of the Articles of Faith and Doctrines of Dogma "); it was the first systematic presentation and philosophic foundation of the dogmas of Judaism, completed at Sura Academy in 933 CE.

He is the so-called " Mad Arab " credited with authoring the imaginary book Kitab al-Azif ( the Necronomicon ), and as such is an integral part of Cthulhu Mythos lore.

Jawami Kitab Al-Nabd Al-Saghir by Galen ( 2007 ), Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine & Sciences, Aligarh, India ; ISBN 978-81-901362-7-3

Kitab fi Firaq al Tibb by Galen ( 2008 ), Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine & Sciences, Aligarh, India ; ISBN 978-81-906070-1-8

Kitab al Anasir by Galen ( 2008 ), Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine & Sciences, Aligarh, India ; ISBN 978-81-906070-2-5

Kitab al Mizaj of Galen ( 2008 ), Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine & Sciences, Aligarh, India ; ISBN 978-81-906070-3-2

They are: Kitab al-Kafi by Muhammad ibn Ya ' qub al-Kulayni al-Razi ( 329 AH ), Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih by Muhammad ibn Babuya and Al-Tahdhib and Al-Istibsar both by Shaykh Muhammad Tusi.

Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi ( Abulcasis ), who some have called the father of modern surgery, wrote the Kitab al-Tasrif ( 1000 ), a 30-volume medical encyclopedia which was taught at Muslim and European medical schools until the 17th century.

His knowledge of optics was connected to the handed-down long-standing tradition of the Kitab al-manazir ( The Optics ; De aspectibus ) of the Arab polymath Alhazen ( Ibn al-Haytham, d. c. 1041 ), which was mediated by Franciscan optical workshops of the 13th-century Perspectivae traditions of scholars such as Roger Bacon, John Peckham and Witelo ( similar influences are also traceable in the third commentary of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Commentario terzo ).

They are: Kitab al-Kafi by Muhammad ibn Ya ' qub al-Kulayni al-Razi ( 329 AH ), Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih by Muhammad ibn Babuya and Al-Tahdhib and Al-Istibsar both by Shaykh Muhammad Tusi.

* c. 1010 — Avicenna ( Abu Ali al Hussein ibn Abdallah ibn Sina ) published The Canon of Medicine ( Kitab al-Qanun fi al-tibb ), in which he introduces clinical trials and clinical pharmacology, and which remains an authoritative text in European medical education up until the 17th century.

* c. 1025 – Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī publishes the Kitab fi Tahqiq ma li ' l-Hind ( Researches on India ), in which he discusses the geology of India and hypothesizes that it was once a sea.

Details about the three of Joktan's sons, Sheba, Ophir and Havilah, were preserved in a tradition known in divergent forms from three pre-Islamic Arabic and Ethiopic sources: the Kitab al-Magall ( part of Clementine literature ), the Cave of Treasures, and the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan.

The Andalusian agronomist Ibn Bassal ( fl 1038 – 1075 ), in his Kitab al-Filaha, describes the flywheel effect employed in a water wheel machine, the saqiya.