Al-Mu afa b. Imran and the beginnings of the tabaqat literature.

From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: January 1, 1996| Author: Robinson, C.F. | Copyright information

The 'Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: Religion, Learning and Science in the Abbasid Period' identifies Al-Mu afa b. Imran as the author of the first tabaqat work in Arabic, the 'Kitab Tabaqat al-muhaddithin.' However, an analysis of different sources reveals that such an attribution is baseless. Nonetheless, Al-Mu afa b. Imran occupies a special place in local Mosuli scholarship. He has been cited as the source of many Mosuli teachings during the late second and third Islamic centuries...

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