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Bibliotheca Islamica (BI) is the Orient-Institut Beirut’s platform for the critical edition of mainly Arabic texts. The series dates back to 1929, when Hellmut Ritter edited the Kitāb Maqālat al-islamīyīn wa-ḫtilāf al-muṣallīn of Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Ašʿarī, a seminal text on dogmatic positions in the early Islamic period. Since then, the OIB has published more than fifty titles in this series.
Ṣalāḥaddīn Ḫalīl b. Aibak aṣ-Ṣafādī (d. 764/1363) was a historian of Turkish descent best known for his 30-volume biographical dictionary al-Wāfī bi-l-Wafayāt. This is a new critical edition of the second volume, which was first published by Sven Dedering in 1949. This revised edition makes use of additional manuscripts as well as some of Ṣafadī’s other writings.
Ansāb al-ašrāf is a genealogical encyclopedia of the Arab-Islamic state. This volume contains biographies of the later Umayyad (Marwānid) caliphs. Each biography of these deals with the policies of the concerned caliph and his governors, his children, and his internal and external relations, as well as with rebellious movements in his era.
Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Thaʿālibī was a poet, critic, lexicographer, historian of literature, prolific scholar, and one of the most important literary figures in the tenth-eleventh centuries. This work of his entitled Khāṣṣ al-khāṣṣ fī l-amthāl is a collection of proverbs and their equivalents in a number of cultures and professions.