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The following is a list of Muslim historians writing in the Islamic historiographical tradition, which developed from hadith literature in the time of the first caliphs. This list is focused on pre-modern historians who wrote before the heavy European influence that occurred from the 19th century onward.
Chronological list
See also: Historiography of early Islam and List of biographies of MuhammadHistorians of the formative period
First era: 700–750 (Ibn Zubayr and al-Zuhri's histories no longer exist, but they are referenced in later works).
- Urwah ibn Zubayr (d. 712)
- Aban bin Uthman bin Affan (d. 723)
- Wahb ibn Munabbih (d. 735)
Second era: 750–800
- Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri (d.741)
- Ibn Ishaq (d. 761) Sirah Rasul Allah (The Life of the Apostle of God)
- Abi Mikhnaf (d. 774) Maqtal al-Husayn
Third era: 800–860
- Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (d. 819)
- Al-Waqidi (d. 823) Kitab al-Tarikh wa'l-Maghazi (Book of History and Battles).
- Ibn Hisham (d. 835)
- Ibn Sa'd (d. 845)
- Khalifa ibn Khayyat (d. 854)
- Muhammad ibn Habib al-Baghdadi (d. 860)
Fourth era: 860–900
- Ibn Abd al-Hakam (d. 871) Futuh Misr wa'l-Maghrib wa akhbaruha
- Ibn Qutaybah (d. 889) Uyun al-akhbar, Al-Imama wa al-Siyasa
- Al-Dinawari (d. 891) Akbar al-tiwal
- Baladhuri (d. 892)
- Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838–923) History of the Prophets and Kings
Fifth era: 900–950
- Ya'qubi (d. 900) Tarikh al-Yaqubi
- Ibn Fadlan (d. after 922)
- Ibn A'tham (d. 314/926-27) al-Futuh
- Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī (d. 945)
Historians of the classical period
Iraq and Iran
- Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (d. 946)
- Ali al-Masudi (d. 955) The Meadows of Gold
- Sinan ibn Thabit (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).
- Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1201)
- Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179–1229) author of Mu'jam al-Buldan ("The Dictionary of Countries")
- Ibn al-Athir (1160–1231) al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh
- Muhammad bin Ali Rawandi (c.1204) Rahat al-sudur, (a history of the Great Seljuq Empire and its break-up into minor beys)
- Zahiriddin Nasr Muhammad Aufi (d. 1242)
- Sibt ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1256)
- Hamdollah Mostowfi (d. 1281)
- Ibn Bibi (d. after 1281)
- Ata-Malik 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) Rauzât-us-safâ
Egypt, Palestine and Syria
- Al-Muqaddasi (d.1000)
- Ẓāhir al-Dīn Nīshāpūrī around 1175
- al-Musabbihi (d. 1030), Akhbar Misr
- 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)
- Sibt ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1256) Mir'at al-zaman (Mirror of the Time)
- Ibn al-Adim (d. 1262)
- Abu Shama (AH 599–665/AD 1203–68) full name Abū Shāma Shihāb al-Dīn al-Maqdisī
- Ibn Khallikan (d. 1282)
- Ibn Abd al-Zahir (d. 1293)
- Abu'l-Fida (d. 1331)
- al-Nuwayri (d. 1332)
- al-Mizzi (d. 1341)
- al-Dhahabi (d. 1348) Tarikh al-Islam al-kabir
- 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
- Mujir al-Din al-'Ulaymi (d.1522)
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 Rushd (d. 1198)
- Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi
- al-Qurtubi (d. 1273)
- Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi (d. 1298)
- Ibn Idhari (d. 1312)
- Ibn Battuta (d. 1369))
- 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
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 1260)
- Amir Khusro (d. 1325)
- Ziauddin Barani (d. 1357)
- Akbar Shah Khan Najibabadi (1875–1938)
- Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman Medieval Indian medical historian
- Sayyid Shamsullah Qadri (24 November 1885 – 22 October 1953)
- Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (15 January 1948)
Early modern historians
Turkish: Ottoman Empire
- Aşıkpaşazade (d. 1481)
- Tursun Beg (d. after 1488)
- İdris-i Bitlisi (d. 1520)
- Ibn Kemal (d. 1534)
- Matrakçı Nasuh (d. 1564)
- Hoca Sadeddin Efendi (d. 1599)
- Mustafa Âlî (d. 1600)
- Mustafa Selaniki (d. 1600)
- Katip Çelebi (d. 1647)
- İbrahim Peçevi (d. 1650)
- Evliya Çelebi (d. after 1682)
- 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)
Arabic: Ottoman Empire and Morocco
- Ibn Iyas (d. after November 1522)
- Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (d. 1632)
- Mohammed al-Ifrani (d. 1747)
- Mohammed al-Qadiri (d. 1773)
- Khalil al-Muradi (d. 1791)
- Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (d. 1825) Aja'ib al-athar fi'l-tarajim wa'l-akhbar
- Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri (d. 1897)
Persian: Safavid Empire and Mughal India
- Muhammad Khwandamir (d. 1534)
- 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. c. 1675)
- Abul Fazl Mamuri (c. 1700)
- Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi (d. c. 1760)
Historians of the modern period
- Mohammad Iqbal (b. 1877)
- Joel Hayward (b. 1964)
See also
Notes
- ^ (Robinson hasn't mentioned his name.)
- Bianquis, "Al-Musabbihi", Encyclopaedia of Islam, Leiden: Brill, 1960-2004.
- Antrim, Zayde G. "Abū Shāma Shihāb al-Dīn al-Maqdisī". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_22839. ISSN 1873-9830. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- "Tursun Beg." Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill, 1960-2004.
References
- Robinson, Chase F. (2003), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-62936-5. XIV and XV ("Chase F. Robinson" in "Islamic Historiography" has mentioned the chronological list of Islamic historians.)
- Babinger, Franz. Geschichtsschreiber der Osmanen. Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1927.
- Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill, 1960-2004.