List of Muslim historians
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A list of Islamic historians includes:
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[edit] Chronological list
See also: Historiography of early Islam and Early Muslim sociology
"Chase F. Robinson" in "Islamic Historiography" has mentioned the chronological list of Islamic historians.
[edit] The historians of the formative period
First class: 700-750 (Ibn Zubayr and al-Zuhri's histories no longer exist, but they are referenced in later works).
- Urwah ibn Zubayr (died in 712 CE)
- Al-Zuhri (died in 742 CE)
Second class: 750-800
- Ibn Ishaq (d. 761) - Sirah Rasul Allah (The Life of the Apostle of God)
- Abi Mikhnaf (d. 157 AH - 774 CE) - Maqtal al-Husayn
- Sayf ibn Umar (d. 796)
Third class: 800-860
- Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (d. 819)
- Al-Waqidi (d. 207 A.H. /823CE) - Kitab al-Tarikh wa'l-Maghazi (Book of History and Battles).
- Al-Madaini (d. 830-850)
- Ibn Hisham (d. 835)
- Ibn Sa'd (d. 845)
- Khalifa ibn Khayyat (d. 854)
Fourth class: 860-900
- Ibn Abd al-Hakam (d. 871) - Futuh Misr wa'l-Maghrib wa akhbaruha
- Umar ibn Shabba (d. 878)
- Al-Haysam ibn Adi (d. 882)
- Ibn Qutaybah (d. 889) - Uyun al-akhbar, Al-Imama wa al-Siyasa[1]
- Al-Dinawari (d. 891) - Akbar al-tiwal
- Baladhuri (d. 892)
Fifth class: 900-950
- Ya'qubi (d. 900) - Tarikh al-Yaqubi
- Ibn Fadlan (d. after 922)
- Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838CE - 923CE) - History of the Prophets and Kings
- Ibn A'tham (d. 314/926-27) - al-Futuh
- Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī (d. 945)
[edit] The historians of the classical period
[edit] Iraq and Iran
- Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (d. 946)
- Ali al-Masudi (d. 955) - The Meadows of Gold
- Sabit ibn Sinan al-Sabi (d. 976)
- al-Saghani (d. 990), one of the earliest historians of science
- Ibn Miskawayh (d. 1030)
- al-Utbi (d. 1036)
- Hilal ibn al-Muhassin al-Sabi' (d. 1056)
- al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (d. 1071) - Tarikh Baghdad (a biographical dictionary of major Baghdadi figures)
- Abolfazl Beyhaqi (995-1077) - Tarikh-e Mas'oudi (also known as "Tarikh-e Beyhaqi").[1]
- Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (d. 1083)
- Ibn al-Imrani (d. 1184)
- Zahir al-Din Nishapuri (d. 1187)
- Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1201)
- Ali ibn al-Athir (1160 - 1231) - al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh
- Zahiriddin Nasr Muhammad Aufi (d. 1242)
- Ibn al-Sa'i (d. 1276)
- Ibn Bibi (d. after 1281)
- Ata al-Mulk Juvayni (1283)
- Ibn al-Tiqtaqa (d. after 1302)
- Ibn al-Fuwati (d. 1323)
- Wassaf (d. 1323)
- Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (d. 1398) - Jami al-Tawarikh
- Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi (d. 1454)
- Mirkhond (d. 1498)
[edit] Egypt and Syria
- Al-Musabbihi (d. 1030)
- Ibn al-Sayrafi (d. 1147)
- Ibn al-Qalanisi (d. 1160)
- Ibn Asakir (d. 1176)
- Usamah ibn Munqidh (d. 1188)
- Imad al-Din al-Isfahani (d. 1201)
- Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (d. 1231)
- Baha al-Din ibn Shaddad (d. 1235) - al-Nawādir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya (The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin)
- al-Kalabi (d.1237)
- Sibt ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1256) - Mir'at al-zaman (Mirror of the Time)
- Ibn al-Adim (d. 1262)
- Abu Shama (d. 1267)
- Ibn Khallikan (d. 1282)
- Ibn Abd al-Zahir (d. 1292)
- Baybars al-Mansuri (d. 1325)
- Abu'l-Fida (d. 1331)
- al-Nuwayri (d. 1332)
- Ibn al-Dawadari (d. after 1335)
- al-Mizzi (d. 1341)
- al-Dhahabi (d. 1348) - Tarikh al-Islam al-kabir
- al-Safadi (d. 1363)
- Ibn Kathir (d. 1373) - al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya (The Beginning and the End)
- Ibn al-Furat (d. 1405)
- al-Maqrizi (d. 1442) - al-Suluk li-ma'firat duwwal al-muluk (Mamluk history of Egypt)
- Ibn Hajr al-Asqalani (d. 1449)
- al-Ayni (d. 1451)
- Ibn Taghribirdi (d. 1470) - Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira (History of Egypt)
- al-Sakhawi (d. 1497)
- al-Suyuti (d. 1505) - History of the Caliphs
[edit] al-Andalus and the Maghreb
- Qadi al-Nu'man (d. 974)
- Ibn al-Qūṭiyya (d. 977) - Ta'rikh iftitah al-Andalus
- Ibn Faradi (d. 1012)
- Ibn Hazm (d. 1063)
- Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr (d. 1071)
- Ibn Hayyan (d. 1075)
- al-Udri (d. 1085)
- Abū 'Ubayd 'Abd Allāh al-Bakrī (d. 1094)
- Qadi Iyad (d. 1149)
- Mohammed al-Baydhaq (d. 1164)
- Ibn Idhari (d. 1312)
- Ibn al-Khatib (d. 1374)
- Ibn Abi Zar (d. ca. 1320) - Rawd al-Qirtas
- Ismail ibn al-Ahmar (d. 1406)
- Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) - al-Muqaddimah and al-I'bar
[edit] India
Further information: Muslim chronicles for Indian history
- al-Bīrūnī (d. 1048) - Kitab fi Tahqiq ma li'l-Hind (Researches on India), The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries
- Minhaj-i-Siraj (d. after 1259)
- Amir Khusro (d. 1325)
- Isami (d. after 1350) - Futuh al-Salatin
- Ziauddin Barani (d. 1357)
[edit] The post-classical historians
[edit] Turkish
- Aşıkpaşazade (d. 1481)
- Mehmed Neşrî (d. before 1520)
- Hoca Sadeddin Efendi (d. 1599)
- Mustafa Ali (d. 1600)
- Mustafa Selaniki (d. 1600)
- Katip Çelebi (d. 1647)
- İbrahim Peçevi (d. 1650)
- Mustafa Naima (1655-1716) - Ta'rīkh-i Na'īmā
- Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Aga (d. 1723)
- Ahmed Resmî Efendi (d. 1783)
- Ahmet Cevdet Pasha (d. 1895)
[edit] Arabic
- Ibn Iyas (d. after November 1522)
- Shams al-Din ibn Tulun (d. 1546)
- Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (d. 1632)
- Mohammed al-Ifrani (d. 1747)
- Mohammed al-Qadiri (d. 1773)
- Ahmad al-Damurdashi (d. after 1775)
- Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (d. 1825) - Aja'ib al-athar fi'l-tarajim wa'l-akhbar
- Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri (d. 1897)
[edit] Persian
- Hasan Beg Rumlu (d. after 1550)
- Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (d. 1602) - Akbarnama
- Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni (d. 1615)
- Firishta (d. 1620)
- Iskandar Beg Munshi (d. 1632)
- Nizamuddin Ahmad (d. 1621)
- Inayat Allah Kamboh (d. 1671)
- Muhammad Saleh Kamboh (d. ca. 1675)
- Abul Fazl Mamuri (c. 1700)
- Khafi Khan (d. after 1733) - Muntakhib-ul-lubab
- Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi (d. c. 1760)
- Ghulam Husain Tabatabai (d. after 1781)
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Robinson, Chase F. (2003), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521629365 : XIV and XV
