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List of Muslim historians

This is a subarticle of Islamic scholars, List of Muslim scholars and List of historians.

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 Muhammad

The historians 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).

Second era: 750-800

Third era: 800-860

Fourth era: 860-900

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)

The historians of the classical period

Iraq and Iran

Egypt, Palestine and Syria

  • Al-Muqaddasi (d.1000)
  • Ẓāhir al-Dīn Nīshāpūrī around 1175
  • al-Musabbihi (d. 1030), Akhbar Misr[2]
  • 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[3]
  • 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)
  • Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman Medieval Indian medical historian
  • Sayyid Shamsullah Qadri (24 November 1885 – 22 October 1953)

The early modern historians

Turkish: Ottoman Empire

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

The historians of the modern period

  • Mohammad Iqbal (b. 1877)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b (Robinson hasn't mentioned his name.)
  2. ^ Bianquis, "Al-Musabbihi", Encyclopaedia of Islam, Leiden: Brill, 1960-2004.
  3. ^ Antrim, Zayde G., "Abū Shāma Shihāb al-Dīn al-Maqdisī", in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Edited by: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson. Consulted online on 23 April 2018, first published online: 2009, first print edition: 9789004178533, 2009
  4. ^ "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.

See also

  • tr:Osmanlı tarihçileri
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