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Majhulun (Arabic: مجهولون, lit. 'anonymous' or 'unknown authors') is a collective bibliographical designation employed in Arabic library catalogs, manuscript indices, and biographical reference works to categorize texts whose compilers, authors, or abridgers remain unidentified .
Bibliographical Function and Scope
In both classical indices and modern manuscript cataloging systems, the label is assigned to unauthored treatises, fragmentary codices, marginal compilations, and anonymous epitomes spanning various Islamic disciplines, including history, jurisprudence, Hadith, Quranic sciences, and literature . Works filed under this classification frequently include anonymous historical condensations and regional chronicles—such as abridgments of primary biographical dictionaries and dynastic histories—where the original text is preserved or summarized without an explicit attribution to a specific copyist or scholar .
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List of Works
This biographical work is an anonymous abridgment of al-Siyaq li-Tarikh Nisabur, preserving historical, doctrinal, and social details of scholars, jurists, traditionists, and notables connected to Nishapur during the Ghaznavid and Seljuk periods. Organized alphabetically, the surviving text retains extended narratives, literary excerpts, personal anecdotes, and poems, documenting prominent patrician families, theological tensions, and authentic Persian names of Khurasan.
This Persian historical treatise, also known in Arabic translation as Akhbar Salajiqa al-Rum, is an anonymous abridgment of Ibn Bibi's chronicle al-Awamir al-'Ala'iyya fi al-Umur al-'Ala'iyya. Composed in the 7th century AH / 13th century CE, it chronicles the political, military, and administrative history of the Sultanate of Rum in Anatolia from 588 AH (1192 CE) to 679 AH (1280–1281 CE), condensing the source text into straightforward prose by removing rhetorical embellishments.