1- (AlFaharast) (The Index) book by Al Shaikh Al Nadeem considers one of the most trusted books and the oldest that brought to us the image of that huge knowledge rise that Islam Nation was witnessed specially in the 4th century of (Hijrah) , the century of scientific rise , so this book considers as a distinguished document , it knows through this document the aspects of the cultural advance and the cultures meeting in the frame of Islamic and Arabic civilization and the social , and political events that effected in the scientists and their sciences so it will be useful for the searcher in knowing much about the scientist rising, sayings, doings and his beliefs , that it cannot dispense as a source of an inheritance sources
2- The use of the word (Index) refers to the 2nd century of Hujrah, (Nadeem) was transferring from (Jabir Bin Hayan) index (Died 199 Hujrah) and Al Razi Book index (Died 250 Hujrah) and he used it as the (Kashaf) (The Table) also .
3- The book classified in the field of indexes , proof, programs, Sheikdoms, and dictionaries and those books, and they are the books that concern in registering the names of specifications and their addresses. the origin of the word (Fahrast) is Persian, which it means the ,group of books by numbers
4- in that work (Nadeem) put his hand on afirst work (Biographic) in Arabic in asubjective unit which specialized in books dividing. so he was the typical pioneer for biographers and searchers to refer to this book.
but although he faced critics ,but this book is not out of it's usefulness in general and privately . and it is a general source in it's index and a pioneer in it's field and the first author in the history |