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Modern authors

Classical authors

References

Citing sources

Citing dates

046 field

3xx fields

Miscellaneous information

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Arabic NACO Funnel

Citing the book in hand

Cite from the item being cataloged according to general NACO practices.

Titles should be capitalized according to the following lists:
always in caps.

Duktur/D
Shaykh
Imām
Āyāt Allāh

only in caps. immediately bef. name

ustādh
mudarris
sayyid

Citing Zirikli

Cite Zirikli using this general format:

670 Ziriklī |b ([hdg.]; [full name from body of article]; [dates])

Examples:

670 Ziriklī |b (al-Tijānī; Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Tijānī; 231-320/846-932)

670 Ziriklī |b (al-Badiḥī; ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Badiḥī; died approximaely 380/990)

Citing Brockelmann

Cite Brockelmann using this general format:

670 Brockelmann |b ([italicized part(s) of article]; [full name from article]; [dates])

Examples:

670 Brockelmann |b (at-Ṭabātabā'ī; Ibr. b. Ḥu. b. Riḍā b. al-Mahdī at-Ṭabātabā'ī; born 1248/1832 in Najaf, died 1318-1901)

670 Brockelmann |b (al-Ḫatīb an-Naǧafī; M. Saʻīd b. Muṣṭafá Ef. b. M. Ef. al-Ḫatīb an-Naǧafi; born 1258/1842 in ar-Rusafa, died 20 Ǧum. I, 1320/26-8-1902 in Baghdad)

Note: Brockelmann is citing using the romanization found there, the heading and references are constructed by standardizing Brockelmann's romanization to LC's system.

Citing Kahhalah

Cite Kahhalah using this general format:

670 Kaḥḥālah |b ([Heading]; [full name from body of article]; [dates])

Examples:

670 Kaḥḥālah |b (al-Ḥusayn al-Ṭabarī; al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṭabarī, al-Shāfiʻī, Abū ʻAbd Allāh; 418-489/1027-1105)

670 Kaḥḥālah |b (Muḥammad al-Jazarī; Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd al-Jazarī, thumma al-Miṣrī, al-Shāfiʻī, known as Ibn al-Ḥashshāsh (Shams al-Dīn, Abū ʻAbd Allāh); 637-711/1239-1312)