de Geschichte“, ed., Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, Gottingen, 1850); (ed., Tharwat ‘Ukāshah, Cairo, 1960). Kitāb al-Shi‘r wa-al-Shu‘arā’ (“Liber Poësie et Poëtarum,” ed., M. J de Goeje, Leiden, 1904) Kitab ‘Uyūn al-Akhbār. 4 vols. (Cairo, 1925-30); biographic history of eminent figures. Kitāb al-Amwāl Kitāb al-‘Arab wa ‘Ulūmuhā; history of Arab scholars Kitāb al-Ashriba; alcoholic beverages. Kitāb Dalā’il al-Nubuwwa, or A‘lām al-Nubuwwa on the Proofs of the Prophets. Kitāb Fad.l al-‘Arab ‘alā al-‘Ajam, in praise of the Arabs over the Persians. Kitāb I‘rāb al-Qur’ān, a philological commentary on the Qur'ān. Kitāb al-Ikhtilāf fī al-Lafz wa al-Radd ‘alā al-Jahmiyya wal-Mushabbiha, a refutation of the Allegorizers and Anthropomorphists. (Egypt,several editions) Kitāb al-Ishtiqāq Kitāb Is.lāh. Ghalat, corrections of Gharīb al-H.adīth by al-Qāsim ibn Salām. Kitāb Jāmi‘ al-Fiqh, jurisprudence, dispraised as unreliable by al-T.abarī and Ibn Surayj, as was Ibn Qutayba’s al-Amwāl. Kitāb Jāmi‘ al-Nah.w al-Kabīr and Jāmi‘ al-Nah.w al-S.aghīr Kitāb al-Jarāthīm, linguistics. Kitāb al-Jawābāt al-H.ād.ira. Kitāb al-Ma‘ānī al-Kabīr Kitāb al-Masā’il wal-Ajwiba. Kitāb al-Maysar wal-Qidāh, ('Dice and Lots'). Kitāb al-Na‘m wal-Bahā’im, cattle and livestock. Kitāb al-Nabāt, botany. Kitāb al-Qirā’āt, ('The Canonical Readings'). Kitāb al-Radd ‘alā al-Qā’il bi Khalq al-Qur’ān, ('Against the creationist claims about the Qur’an'). Kitāb al-Radd ‘alā al-Shu‘aybiyya, ('Refutation of a sub-sect of the ‘Ajārida ‘At.awiyya, itself a sub-sect of the Khawārij). Kitāb al-Rah.l wal-Manzil. Kitāb Ta‘bīr al-Ru’yā, ('Interpretation of Dreams'). Kitāb Talqīn al-Muta‘allim min al-Nah.w on grammar. Kitāb ‘Uyūn al-Shi‘r, on poetry. See also List of Islamic scholars List of Iranian scientists and scholars Al-Zahiriyah Library Citations References External links A. Guellati, La notion d'adab chez Ibn Qutayba : étude générique et éclairage comparatiste (= Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses 169), Turnhout: Brepols, 2015, Imam Ibn Qutayba 820s births 885 deaths 9th-century Iranian historians 9th-century Muslim scholars of Islam Atharis Scholars from the Abbasid Caliphate Arabic-language writers Persian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam People from Kufa