A 7th/13th-century Onomasticon

Ms. Damas, Tārīḫ 267, Ibn al-Fuwaṭī, Talḫīṣ
Onomasticon Arabicum (OA) is a long-living database project. This new online-version informs on more than 27000 scholars and celebrities from the first Muslim millenary. Its entries in Arabic are compiled from ancient biographical dictionaries, a veritable treasure of Islamic culture. Crossed search allows separate interrogation on any of the different elements of the Arabo-Muslim names, dates and places, reconstructing the identity of a person, trace ways of knowledge transmission and frame historical contexts.
| RN | Asmā’ al-Riğāl |
| BT | Badr (al-) al-ṭālīʿ bi-maḥāsin man baʿd al-qarn al-sābiʿ |
| DQ | Dumyat al-qaṣr wa-ʻuṣrat ahl al-ʻaṣr |
| DG | Dībāğ (al-) al-muḏhab fī maʿrifat aʿyān ʿulamā’ al-maḏhab |
| FT | Fihrist (al-) li-l-Shaykh Abī Ğaʿfar al-Ṭūsī |
| CU | I Diplomi greci ed arabici di Sicilia |
| IT | Inbā’ al-barriyya fī abna’ al-ṭabariyya |
| WZ | Išāra (al-) ila man nāla l-wizāra |
| KS | Iḫtiyār ma‘rifat al-riğāl al-ma‘rūf bi-Riğāl al-Kaššī |
| MU | Maʻālim al-ʻulamāʼ fī fihrist kutub al-šīʻa wa-asmāʼ al-muṣannifīn minhum qadīman wa-ḥadīthan |
| MT | Maṭlaʻ al-budūr wa-maǧmaʻ al-buḥūr fī tarāğim riğāl az-zaydiyya |
| BM | Mulḥaq al-badr al-ṭāli‘: al-ğuz' al-ṯānī |
| MK | Muqtaḍab (al-) min kitāb tuḥfat al-qādim |
| UM | Nakt al-himyān fī nukat al-ʿumyān |
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| TR | Tarāğim riğāl al-qarnayn al-sādis wa-l-sābiʿ |
| TY | Tatimmat al-Yatīma (mutammim al-aqsām al-ṯāliṯa al-ūlā min al-Yatīma) |
| WA | Wafayāt al-aʿyān wa anbā' abnā' al-zamān |
| YT | Yatīmat al-dahr fī maḥāsin ahl al-ʿaṣr (volume 4) |
| GM | Ğazwat al-muqtabis fī ḏikr wulāt al-Andalus |
| SD | Šaḏarāt al-ḏahab fī aḫbār man ḏahab |
| SD1 | Šaḏarāt al-ḏahab fī aḫbār man ḏahab |
| IU | ʿUyūn al-anbā’ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbā’ |
| ZM | Ḏayl Ṭabaqāt al-šuʿarā’ al-muḥdaṯīn |
| HL | Ḥulla (al-) l-siyarā’ |
| HQ | Ḫarīdat al-qaṣr wa-ğarīdat al-ʿaṣr (al-Maġrib) |
| HQ | Ḫarīdat al-qaṣr wa-ğarīdat al-ʿaṣr (al-Šām) |
| HQ | Ḫarīdat al-qaṣr wa-ğarīdat al-ʿaṣr (al-‘Irāq) |
| TZ | Ṭabaqāt al-Zaydiyya al-kubrā |
| IG | Ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbā’ wa-l-ḥukamā’ |
| UN | Ṭabaqāt al-umam |
| ZZ | Ṭabaqāt al-šuʿarā’ al-muḥdaṯīn |
| HB | Ṭabaqāt al-ḥanābila |
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