List of Islamic historians
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The following is a list of Muslim historians writing in the Islamic historiographical tradition, which developed from hadith
Hadith
The term Hadīth is used to denote a saying or an act or tacit approval or criticism ascribed either validly or invalidly to the Islamic prophet Muhammad....
literature in the time of the first caliph
Caliph
The Caliph is the head of state in a Caliphate, and the title for the ruler of the Islamic Ummah, an Islamic community ruled by the Shari'ah. It is a transcribed version of the Arabic word which means "successor" or "representative"...
s. This list is focused on pre-modern historians who wrote before the heavy European influence that occurred from the 19th century onward.
Chronological list
"Chase F. Robinson" in "Islamic Historiography" has mentioned the chronological list of Islamic historians.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).- Urwah ibn Zubayr (d. 712)
- Wahb ibn MunabbihWahb ibn Munabbih'Wahb ibn Munabbih' was a Muslim traditionist of Dhimar in Yemen; died at the age of ninety, in a year variously given by Arabic authorities as 725, 728, 732, and 737 C.E....
(d. 735)
Second era: 750-800
- Ibn Shihab al-ZuhriIbn Shihab al-ZuhriFor the geographer from Al-Andalus see Mohammed Ibn Abu Bakr al-ZuhriMuhammad ibn Muslim ibn Ubaydullah ibn Shihab al-Zuhri , usually called simply Ibn Shihab or al-Zuhri...
(d.741) - Ibn IshaqIbn IshaqMuḥammad ibn Isḥaq ibn Yasār ibn Khiyār was an Arab Muslim historian and hagiographer...
(d. 761) - Sirah Rasul Allah (The Life of the Apostle of God) - Abi Mikhnaf (d. 774) - Maqtal al-HusaynMaqtal al-HusaynMaqtal al-Husayn is a book which narrates the story of battle of Karbala and death of Hussain ibn Ali. These books has written since the 8th century until now.-Maqtal:...
Third era: 800-860
- Hisham ibn al-KalbiHisham Ibn Al-KalbiHisham Ibn Al-Kalbi , also known as Ibn al-Kalbi was an Arab historian. His full name Abu al-Mundhir Hisham bin Muhammed bin al-Sa'ib bin Bishr al-Kalbi. Born in Kufa, he spent much of his life in Baghdad. Like his father, he collected information about the genealogies and history of the ancient...
(d. 819) - Al-WaqidiAl-WaqidiAbu `Abdullah Muhammad Ibn ‘Omar Ibn Waqid al-Aslami , commonly referred to as al-Waqidi , was an early Muslim historian.He was born and educated in Medina...
(d. 823) - Kitab al-Tarikh wa'l-Maghazi (Book of History and Battles). - Ibn HishamIbn HishamAbu Muhammad 'Abd al-Malik bin Hisham , or Ibn Hisham edited the biography of Muhammad written by Ibn Ishaq. Ibn Ishaq's work is lost and is now only known in the recensions of Ibn Hisham and al-Tabari. Ibn Hisham grew up in Basra, Iraq, but moved afterwards to Egypt, where he gained a name...
(d. 835) - Ibn Sa'd (d. 845)
- Khalifa ibn KhayyatKhalifa ibn KhayyatAbū 'Amr Khalifa ibn Khayyat al Laythī al 'Usfurī , Arab historian.His family were natives of Basra in Iraq. His grandfather was a noted muhaddith or traditionalist, and Khalifa became renowned for this also. Among the great Islamic scholars who were his pupils were Bukhari and Ahmad ibn Hanbal.He...
(d. 854)
Fourth era: 860-900
- Ibn Abd al-Hakam (d. 871) - Futuh Misr wa'l-Maghrib wa akhbaruha
- Ibn QutaybahIbn QutaybahIbn Qutaybah was a renowned Islamic scholar of Persian origin.-Biography:His full name is Abu Muhammad ‘Abdullaah bin Muslim Ibn Qutaybah Ad-Dinawaree. He was born in Kufa in what is now modern day Iraq. He was of Iranian descent; his father was from Merv...
(d. 889) - Uyun al-akhbar, Al-Imama wa al-SiyasaAl-Imama wa al-SiyasaAl-Imama wa al-Siyasa is an Arabic work falsely attributed to the Sunni Islamic scholar Ibn Qutaybah about the history of Islam.This book is traditionally known as Ta’rikh al-Khulafa’ .-Editions:*ed. Zini Taha , 21.... - Al-DinawariAl-DinawariĀbu Ḥanīfah Āḥmad ibn Dawūd Dīnawarī was a Persian polymath excelling as much in astronomy, agriculture, botany and metallurgy and as he did in geography, mathematics and history. He was born in Dinawar, . He studied astronomy, mathematics and mechanics in Isfahan and philology and poetry in...
(d. 891) - Akbar al-tiwal - Baladhuri (d. 892)
- Muhammad ibn Jarir al-TabariMuhammad ibn Jarir al-TabariAbu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari was a prominent and influential Sunni scholar and exegete of the Qur'an from Persia...
(838CE - 923CE) - History of the Prophets and KingsHistory of the Prophets and Kings (book)The History of the Prophets and Kings is a historical chronicle written in Arabic by Persian author and historian Ibn Jarir al-Tabari d...
Fifth era: 900-950
- Ya'qubiYa'qubiAhmad ibn Abu Ya'qub ibn Ja'far ibn Wahb Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi , known as Ahmad al-Ya'qubi, or Ya'qubi, was a Berber Muslim geographer.-Biography:He was a great-grandson of Wadih, the freedman of the caliph Mansur...
(d. 900) - Tarikh al-YaqubiTarikh al-YaqubiTa'rikh ibn Wadih or popularly Tarikh Yaqubi is a well known classical Islamic history book, written by Ya'qubi .-Overview:Like his contemporary Al-Dinawari, Ya'qubi's histories, unlike those of their predecessors, aimed to entertain as well as instruct; they are "literary" productions... - Ibn Fadlan (d. after 922)
- Ibn A'tham (d. 314/926-27) - al-Futuh
- Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī (d. 945)
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and IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
- Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (d. 946)
- Ali al-Masudi (d. 955) - The Meadows of GoldThe Meadows of GoldMeadows of Gold and Mines of Gems is an historical account in Arabic of the beginning of the world starting with Adam and Eve up to and through the late Abbasid Caliphate by medieval Baghdadi historian Masudi .Its only English version is the abridged The Meadows of...
- Sinan ibn ThabitSinan ibn ThabitSinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra سنان بن ثابت بن قرة ) was an ethnic Mandean physician and a Sabian who later converted to Islam. He was the son of Thabit ibn Qurra and the father of Ibrahim ibn Sinan.- References :...
(d. 976) - al-SaghaniAl-saghaniAbu Hamid Ahmed ibn Mohammed al-Saghani al-Asturlabi was a Persian astronomer and historian of science. He flourished in Baghdad, where he died in 990 AD....
(d. 990), one of the earliest historians of scienceHistory of scienceThe history of science is the study of the historical development of human understandings of the natural world and the domains of the social sciences.... - Ibn MiskawayhIbn MiskawayhAbu 'Ali Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ya'qub Ibn Miskawayh, also known as Ibn Miskawayh or Ebn Meskavayh was a Persian chancery official of the Buwayhid era, and philosopher and historian from Rey, Iran...
(d. 1030) - al-Utbi (d. 1036)
- Hilal ibn al-Muhassin al-Sabi'Hilal al-Sabi'Abū'l-Ḥusayn Hilāl b. Muḥassin b. Ibrahīm al-Ṣābi' ابو حسين هلال بن محسن بن ايبراهيم الصابئ) was a historian, bureaucrat, and writer of Arabic. Born into a family of Sabian bureaucrats, al-Ṣābi converted to Islam in 1012 AD...
(d. 1056) - al-Khatib al-BaghdadiAl-Khatib al-BaghdadiAbu Bakr Ahmad ibn `Ali ibn Thabit ibn Ahmad ibn Mahdi al-Shafi`i, commonly known as al-Khatib al-Baghdadi or the lecturer from Baghdad , was a Sunni Muslim scholar and historian.-Early life:...
(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-JawziAbu'l-Faraj ibn al-JawziAbu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi from Bagdad was an Islamic scholar whose family traces their lineage back to that of Abu Bakr, the famous companion of the prophet Muhammad and first caliph...
(d. 1201) - Ibn al-Athir (1160–1231) - al-Kamil fi'l-TarikhThe Complete History (book)The Complete History - is a classic Islamic history book written by Ali ibn al-Athir. Composed in ca. 1231, it is one of the most important Islamic historical works.-The Rus:...
- Muhammad bin Ali RawandiMuhammad bin Ali RawandiMuhammad bin Ali Rawandi , was a Persian historian who wrote the Rahat al-sudur wa ayat al-surur during the fall of the Great Seljuk Empire and the subsequent invasion by the Kharwarzmian empire....
(c.1204) Rahat al-sudur, (a history of the Great Seljuq Empire and its break-up into minor beys) - Zahiriddin Nasr Muhammad AufiZahiriddin Nasr Muhammad AufiSadiduddin Muhammad Aufi was a Persian historian, scientist, and author.-Biography:Born in Bukhara, Aufi grew up during the apex of the Islamic Golden Age, and spent many years traveling, exploring, and lecturing to the common folk and the royalty alike in Delhi, Khorasan, Khwarizm, Samarkand,...
(d. 1242) - Sibt ibn al-JawziSibt ibn al-JawziYusuf ibn Abd-Allah , famously known as Sibt ibn al-Jawzi and Abu-Muzaffar .was a famous scholar.-Confusion:He was the grandson of the great Hanbali scholar Abul-Faraj Ibn Al-Jawzi who is known for his works such as A Great Collection of Fabricated Traditions and the Provision of the journey .his...
(d. 1256) - Hamdollah MostowfiHamdollah MostowfiHamdollah Mostowfi was a Persian historian, geographer and epic poet.Mostowfi is the author of Nozhat ol-Gholub , Zafar-Nameh , and the Tarikh e Gozideh . His tomb is a structure with a blue turquoise conical dome, at Qazvin.-References and notes:...
(d. 1281) - Ibn BibiIbn BibiIbn Bibi is author of the primary source for the history of the Seljuq Sultanate of Rum during the 13th century. He served as head of the chancellery of the Sultanate in Konya and reported on contemporary events....
(d. after 1281) - Ata al-Mulk JuvayniAta al-Mulk JuvayniAtâ-Malek Jovayni was a Persian historian who wrote an account of the Mongol Empire entitled Ta' rīkh-i jahān-gushā .He was born in Juvain, a city in Khorasan in northeastern Iran...
(1283) - Ibn al-TiqtaqaIbn al-Tiqtaqa‘Ibn al-Tiqtaqā’, or the son of a chatterbox, was an onomatopoeic nickname for the Iraqi historian Jalāl-ad-Dīn Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Tāji’d-Dīn Abi’l-Hasan ’Ali, the spokesman of the Shi'a community in the Shi’ī holy cities—Hillah, Najaf, and Karbala; in an Iraq that was to remain the stronghold...
(d. after 1302) - Ibn al-FuwatiIbn al-FuwatiIbn al-Fuwati was an Iraqi historian who wrote a great deal, but whose works have mostly been lost. Large portions of his biographical dictionary Madjma' al-adab fi mu'djam al-alqab. He was active in Iraq and Azerbaijan, and his most famous teaching position was at the Madrasa...
(d. 1323) - WassafWassafWassaf or Vassaf or Toghril Beg Abdallah ibn Faḍlallah Sharaf al-Din Shīrāzī was a 14th-century Persian historian of the Ilkhanate...
(d. 1323) - Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (d. 1398) - Jami al-TawarikhJami al-TawarikhThe Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh, , or Universal History is an Iranian work of literature and history written by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani at the start of the 14th century.-The author:...
- Sharaf ad-Din Ali YazdiSharaf ad-Din Ali YazdiSharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi was a 15th-century Persian historian.Little about his early life is known. As a young man he was a teacher in his native Yazd and a close companion of the Timurid ruler Shah Rukh and his son Mirza Ibrahim Sultan...
(d. 1454) - MirkhondMirkhondMīr-Khvānd, Moḥammad ibn Khvāndshāh ibn Maḥmūd was a noted Persian-language historian of the fifteenth century. Born in 1433 in Bukhārā, present-day Uzbekistan, the son of a pious man belonging to an old Bukhāran family of sayyids, or direct descendants of Muḥammad, Mīr-Khvvānd grew up and died in...
(d. 1498) - Rauzât-us-safâ
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, PalestinePalestinePalestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....
and SyriaSyriaSyria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
- Al-MuqaddasiAl-MuqaddasiMuhammad ibn Ahmad Shams al-Din Al-Muqaddasi , also transliterated as Al-Maqdisi and el-Mukaddasi, was a medieval Arab geographer, author of Ahsan at-Taqasim fi Ma`rifat il-Aqalim .-Biography:Al-Muqaddasi, "the Hierosolomite" was born in Jerusalem in 946 AD...
(d.1000) - al-Musabbihi (d. 1030), Akhbar Misr
- Ibn al-QalanisiIbn al-QalanisiHamza ibn Asad abu Ya'la ibn al-Qalanisi was an Arab politician and chronicler in Damascus in the 12th century.He descended from the Banu Tamim tribe, and was among the well-educated nobility of the city of Damascus...
(d. 1160) - Ibn AsakirIbn Asakir-Name:His full name was Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Hibat Allah ibn `Abd Allah, Thiqat al-Din, Abu al-Qasim, known as Ibn `Asakir al-Dimashqi al-Shafi`i al-Ash`ari.-Works:...
(d. 1176) - Usamah ibn MunqidhUsamah ibn MunqidhMajd ad-Dīn Usāma ibn Murshid ibn ʿAlī ibn Munqidh al-Kināni was a medieval Muslim poet, author, faris , and diplomat from the Banu Munqidh dynasty of Shaizar in northern Syria...
(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-JawziSibt ibn al-JawziYusuf ibn Abd-Allah , famously known as Sibt ibn al-Jawzi and Abu-Muzaffar .was a famous scholar.-Confusion:He was the grandson of the great Hanbali scholar Abul-Faraj Ibn Al-Jawzi who is known for his works such as A Great Collection of Fabricated Traditions and the Provision of the journey .his...
(d. 1256) - Mir'at al-zaman (Mirror of the Time) - Ibn al-AdimIbn al-AdimKamal al-Din ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad Ibn al-Adim was a biographer and historian from Aleppo. He is best known for his work Bughyat al-ṭalab fī tārīkh Ḥalab , a multi-volume collection of biographies of famous men from Aleppo, introduced with a volume on the...
(d. 1262) - Abu Shama (d. 1267)
- Ibn KhallikanIbn KhallikanShams al-Dīn Abū Al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khallikān was a 13th Century Shafi'i Islamic scholar of Kurdish origin.-Biography:...
(d. 1282) - Abu'l-FidaAbu'l-FidaAbu al-Fida or Abul Fida Ismail Hamvi was a Kurdish historian, geographer, and local sultan...
(d. 1331) - al-NuwayriAl-NuwayriAl-Nuwayrī, also Shihāb al-Dīn Ahmad b. 'Abd al-Wahhāb al-Nuwayri was a Muslim historian. He died in 1333.He is known for his work regarding the conquest of the Mongols in Syria, and wrote extensively about the history of the Mamluks in the 12th-13th century.-References:* The Historiography of...
(d. 1332) - al-Mizzi (d. 1341)
- al-DhahabiAl-DhahabiMuhammad ibn Ahmad ibn `Uthman ibn Qaymaz ibn `Abd Allah, Shams al-Din Abu `Abd Allah al-Turkmani al-Diyarbakri al-Fariqi al-Dimashqi al-Dhahabi al-Shafi`i , known as Al-Dhahabi , a Shafi'i Muhaddith and historian of Islam.-Biography:...
(d. 1348) - Tarikh al-Islam al-kabir - Ibn KathirIbn KathirIsmail ibn Kathir was a Muslim muhaddith, Faqih, historian, and commentator.-Biography:His full name was Abu Al-Fida, 'Imad Ad-Din, Isma'il bin 'Umar bin Kathir, Al-Qurashi, Al-Busrawi...
(d. 1373) - al-Bidaya wa'l-NihayaAl-Bidaya wa'l-Nihayaal-Bidayah wa'an-Nihayah or Tarikh ibn Kathir is a classic work by the Sunni scholar Ibn Kathir.-Overview:...
(The Beginning and the End) - Ibn al-FuratIbn al-FuratIbn al-Furat was an Egyptian historian and Hanafi scholar. His history Tarikh al-duwwal wa'l-muluk focuses largely on the Crusades....
(d. 1405) - al-MaqriziAl-MaqriziTaqi al-Din Ahmad ibn 'Ali ibn 'Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhammad al-Maqrizi ; Arabic: , was an Egyptian historian more commonly known as al-Maqrizi or Makrizi...
(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 TaghribirdiIbn TaghribirdiJamal al-Din Yusuf bin al-Amir Sayf al-Din Taghribirdi or Ibn Taghribirdi was an Egyptian historian born into the Turkish Mamluk elite of Cairo in the 15th century. He studied under al-Ayni and al-Maqrizi, two of the leading Cairene historians and scholars of the day...
(d. 1470) - Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira (History of Egypt) - al-SakhawiAl-SakhawiShams al-Din Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Rahman al-Sakhawi was a reputable Shafi'i Muslim hadith scholar and historian who was born in Cairo. "Al-Sakhawi" refers to the village of Sakha in Egypt, where his relatives belonged. He was a prolific writer that excelled in the knowledge of hadith, tafsir,...
(d. 1497) - al-SuyutiAl-SuyutiJalaluddin Al-Suyuti also known as Ibn al-Kutub was an Egyptian writer, religious scholar, juristic expert and teacher whose works deal with a wide variety of subjects in Islamic theology. He was precocious and was already a teacher in 1462. In 1486, he was appointed to a chair in the mosque of...
(d. 1505) - History of the CaliphsHistory of the Caliphs (book)History of the Caliphs is a famous book written by Suyuti, the classic Sunni scholar, published in English in 1881 in Calcutta and republished in English at Oriental Press in 1970.-External links:**... - Mujir al-Din al-'UlaymiMujir al-Din al-'UlaymiMujīr al-Dīn al-'Ulaymī , often simply Mujir al-Din, was a Jerusalemite qadi and Arab historian whose principal work chronicled the history of Jerusalem and Hebron in the Middle Ages. Entitled al-Uns al-Jalil bi-tarikh al-Quds wal-Khalil Mujīr al-Dīn al-'Ulaymī (Arabic: ) (1456–1522), often...
(d.1522)
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and the MaghrebMaghrebThe Maghreb is the region of Northwest Africa, west of Egypt. It includes five countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania and the disputed territory of Western Sahara...
- Qadi al-Nu'manQadi al-Nu'manAbu Hanifa al-Nu‘man ibn Muhammad ibn Mansur ibn Ahmad ibn Hayyun al-Tamimi, generally known as al-Qāḍī al-Nu‘mān was an Isma'ili jurist and the official historian of the Fatimid caliphs...
(d. 974) - Ibn al-Qūṭiyya (d. 977) - Ta'rikh iftitah al-Andalus
- Ibn FaradiIbn FaradiAbu l-Walid 'Abdallah ibn ul-Faradi , best known as Ibn Faradi, was a Muladi historian. He was born at Córdoba and studied law and tradition. In 992 he made the pilgrimage and proceeded to Egypt and Kairawan, studying in these places. After his return, in 1009 he became qadi in Valencia...
(d. 1012) - Ibn HazmIbn HazmAbū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm ) was an Andalusian philosopher, litterateur, psychologist, historian, jurist and theologian born in Córdoba, present-day Spain...
(d. 1063) - Yusuf ibn abd al-BarrYusuf ibn abd al-BarrYusuf ibn Abdallah ibn Mohammed ibn Abd al-Barr, Abu Umar al-Namari al-Andalusi al-Qurtubi al-Maliki, commonly known as Ibn Abd-al-Barr was a famous Sunni Maliki Islamic Scholar...
(d. 1071) - Ibn HayyanIbn HayyanAbu Marwán Hayyán Ibn Khalaf Ibn Hayyan al-Qurtubi , usually known as Ibn Hayyan, was a Muslim historian from Al-Andalus.Born at Córdoba, he was an important official at the court of the Andalusian ruler al-Mansur and published several works on history which have only survived in part...
(d. 1075) - al-UdriAl-UdriAl-Udri or el Odsrí in Spanish , was the descendant of Theodor . Al-Udri was an Andalusian Muwallad geographer and historian. He lived in Zaragoza. He was the author of a geographical-historical compendium about the Taifa of Zaragoza in al-Andalus, in which he gives the annals of the region...
(d. 1085) - Abū 'Ubayd 'Abd Allāh al-Bakrī (d. 1094)
- Qadi Iyad (d. 1149)
- Mohammed al-BaydhaqMohammed al-BaydhaqMohammed abu Bakr ibn Ali al Sanhaji al Baydhaq was a companion of Ibn Tumart and chronicler of the Almohads. Al Baydhaq was his nickname, because he was small in stature. He was a Berber from the Senhaja....
(d. 1164) - Ibn IdhariIbn IdhariAbū al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Idhāri al-Marrākushi who lived in the late 13th and the early 14th century, was the author of an important medieval text on the history of the Maghreb and Iberia written in 1312.Little is known about the life of this author, who was born in Al-Andalus and...
(d. 1312) - Ibn BattutaIbn BattutaAbu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta , or simply Ibn Battuta, also known as Shams ad–Din , was a Muslim Moroccan Berber explorer, known for his extensive travels published in the Rihla...
(d. 1369)) - Ibn al-KhatibIbn al-KhatibLisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib was a poet, writer, historian, philosopher, physician and politician from Emirate of Granada. Some of his poems decorate the walls of the Alhambra in Granada.He was born at Loja, near Granada...
(d. 1374) - Ibn Abi ZarIbn Abi ZarAbū al-Hassan ‘Alī ibn Abī Zar‘ al-Fāsī is the commonly presumed original author of the popular and influential medieval history of Morocco known as Rawd al-Qirtas, said to have been written at the instigation of Marinid Sultan Abu Sa'id Uthman II...
(d. ca. 1320) - Rawd al-QirtasRawd al-Qirtasis a history of Morocco written in Arabic in the 1326 C.E. It includes many details about the wider Moroccan empire in Iberian Peninsula and Algeria.... - Ismail ibn al-AhmarIsmail ibn al-AhmarAbu l-Walid Ismail Ibn al-Ahmar was a Moroccan historian of the fourteenth century, the time of the Marinid dynasty. He was a contemporary of Ibn Khaldoun.-Works:Books by Ibn al-Ahmar:...
(d. 1406) - Ibn KhaldunIbn KhaldunIbn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun was an Arab Tunisian historiographer and historian who is often viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography, sociology and economics...
(d. 1406) - al-Muqaddimah and al-I'bar
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- al-BīrūnīAl-BiruniAbū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-BīrūnīArabic spelling. . The intermediate form Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī is often used in academic literature...
(d. 1048) - Kitab fi Tahqiq ma li'l-Hind (Researches on India), The Remaining Signs of Past CenturiesThe Remaining Signs of Past CenturiesThe Remaining Signs of Past Centuries also known as Chronology of Ancient Nations or Vestiges of the Past, after the translation published by Eduard Sachau in 1879) by Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, is a comparative study of calendars of different cultures and civilizations, interlaced with mathematical,... - Minhaj-i-SirajMinhaj-i-SirajMinhaj-i-Siraj was a 13th century Indo-Persian Muslim historian. Born as the son of a Ghorid Qazi, he came to India in 1227 and was made Qazi at the court of Nasiruddin Qabacha at Uchch. After the fall of Multan to Shamsuddin Iltutmish in 1228, he moved to Delhi...
(d. after 1259) - Amir KhusroAmir KhusroAb'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrow , better known as Amīr Khusrow Dehlawī , was an Indian musician, scholar and poet. He was an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent...
(d. 1325) - Ziauddin BaraniZiauddin BaraniZiauddin Barani was a Muslim historian and political thinker who lived in India during Muhammad bin Tughlaq and Firuz Shah's reign. He was best known for composing the Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi, a major historical work on medieval India, which covers the period from the reign of Ghiyas ud din Balban to...
(d. 1357) - Hakim Syed Zillur RahmanHakim Syed Zillur RahmanHakim Syed Zillur Rahman , is well known for his contribution to Unani medicine. He founded Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences in 2000...
, Medieval Indian medical historian
TurkishTurkish peopleTurkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...
: Ottoman EmpireOttoman EmpireThe Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
- AşıkpaşazadeAşıkpaşazadeAşıkpaşazade was an Ottoman historian. His main works are known under two names: Menâkıb-ı Âli-i Osman and Tevārīḫ-i Āl-i ʿOsmān...
(d. 1481) - Tursun BegTursun BegTursun Beg was an Ottoman bureaucrat and historian who wrote a chronicle dedicated to Bayezid II.-Life and career:Tursun Beg's life is only known from references in his chronicle. He came from a prominent timariot family and held a timar himself...
(d. after 1488) - İdris-i Bitlisiİdris-i BitlisiIdris Bitlisi / Idris Bidlisi or Idris-i Bitlisi / Idris-i Bidlisi, a Kurdish religious scholar and Ottoman administrator, born in Bitlis in or around 1452-1457. There is some controversy about his actual place of birth possibly having been Diyarbakir. His full name was Mevlana Hakimeddin İdris...
(d. 1520) - Matrakçı NasuhMatrakçi NasuhNasuh bin Karagöz bin Abdullah el-Bosnavî , commonly known as Matrakçı Nasuh for his competence in the game called Matrak was a 16th century Ottoman mathematician, teacher, historian, geographer, cartographer, swordmaster, and miniaturist of...
(d. 1564) - Hoca Sadeddin EfendiHoca Sadeddin EfendiHoca Sadeddin Efendi was an Ottoman scholar, official, and historian, a teacher of Ottoman sultan Murad III . His name is transcribed differently: Sa'd ad-Din, Sa'd al-Din, Sa’adeddin, Sadeddin, etc...
(d. 1599) - Mustafa AliMustafa AliGelibolulu Mustafa Âlî bin Ahmed bin Abdülmevlâ Çelebi was an Ottoman historian and bureaucrat of Croatian ancestry. He wrote the earliest known biography of Ahmed Bican. He also wrote poetry and essays on religious and other subjects. Prof...
(d. 1600) - Mustafa SelanikiMustafa SelanikiMustafa Selaniki was a Turkish scholar and chronicler, whose Tarih-i Selâniki described the Ottoman Empire of 1563–1599.- See also :*Salonica...
(d. 1600) - Katip ÇelebiKatip ÇelebiKâtip Çelebi, Mustafa bin Abdullah, Haji Khalifa or Kalfa, was an Ottoman scholar. A historian and geographer, he is regarded as one of the most productive authors of non-religious scientific literature in the 17th century Ottoman Empire...
(d. 1647) - İbrahim PeçeviIbrahim Peçeviİbrahim Peçevi or Peçuyli İbrahim Efendi was a Turkish historian of the Ottoman Empire. He was born in Pécs, Ottoman Empire , hence his name, Peçevi . His mother was of Sokollu Bosnian family. The name of his father is unknown...
(d. 1650) - Mustafa NaimaMustafa NaimaMuṣtafa Na'īmā was an Ottoman bureaucrat and historian who wrote the chronicle known as the Ta'rīkh-i Na'īmā...
(1655–1716) - Ta'rīkh-i Na'īmā - Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed AgaSilahdar Findiklili Mehmed AgaSilahdar Findiklili Mehmed Aga was a Turkish historian.Born in Constantinople , he entered in the service of the Imperial Ottoman Gardens and then as page in the privvy chamber...
(d. 1723) - Ahmed Resmî EfendiAhmed Resmî EfendiAhmed Resmî Efendi , also called Ahmed bin İbrahim Giridî , was an Ottoman statesman, diplomat and author of the late 18th century...
(d. 1783) - Ahmet Cevdet Pasha (d. 1895)
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and MoroccoMoroccoMorocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
- Ibn Iyas (d. after November 1522)
- Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (d. 1632)
- Mohammed al-IfraniMohammed al-IfraniMohammed al-Ifrani was a Moroccan historian. He is noted as the author of Safwat man intashar, a compilation of biographies of 17th century Morrocan saints, as well as his 1724 history of the Saadi Dynasty.-External Links:...
(d. 1747) - Mohammed al-Qadiri (d. 1773)
- Abd al-Rahman al-JabartiAbd al-Rahman al-JabartiAbd al-Rahman al-Jabarti or in Egyptian Arabic el Gabarti was a Somali–Egyptian Muslim scholar and chronicler who spent most of his life in Cairo.-Biography:While little is known of his life, according to Franz Steiner, al-Jabarti was...
(d. 1825) - Aja'ib al-athar fi'l-tarajim wa'l-akhbar - Ahmad ibn Khalid al-NasiriAhmad ibn Khalid al-NasiriAbu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri al-Salawi, was born in Salé and is considered to be the greatest Moroccan historian of the 19th century. He was a prominent scholar and a member of the family that founded the Nasiriyya Sufi order in the 17th century. He wrote an important multivolume...
(d. 1897)
PersianPersian languagePersian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
: Safavid Empire and Mughal India
- Muhammad KhwandamirMuhammad KhwandamirGhiyāś ad-Dīn Moḥammad Khwāndamīr, Khvandamir, or Khondamir or Hondemir was a Persian Islamic scholar born in Herat, in 880 AH or 1475 CE, a grandson and successor to noted historian Mirkhond.-Biography:...
(d. 1534) - Abu'l-Fazl ibn MubarakAbu'l-Fazl ibn MubarakShaikh Abu al-Fazl ibn Mubarak also known as Abu'l-Fazl, Abu'l Fadl and Abu'l-Fadl 'Allami was the vizier of the great Mughal emperor Akbar, and author of the Akbarnama, the official history of Akbar's reign in three volumes, and a Persian translation of the Bible...
(d. 1602) - AkbarnamaAkbarnamaThe ' , which literally means Book of Akbar, is the official chronicle of the reign of Akbar, the third Mughal Emperor , commissioned by Akbar himself and written in Persian by his court historian and biographer, Abul Fazl who was one of the nine jewels in Akbar's court... - Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni (d. 1615)
- FirishtaFirishtaFirishta or Ferishta, full name Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah , was born in 1560 and died in 1620 and he was a Persian historian. The name Firishta means angel or one who is sent in Persian.-Life:...
(d. 1620) - Iskandar Beg MunshiIskandar Beg MunshiIskandar Beg Munshi — was a Persian historian, the court historian of the Safavid emperor Shah Abbas I. Iskandar Beg began as an accountant in the bureaucracy, but later became a privileged secretary of the Shahs. He wrote one of the greatest works of Persian historiography,...
(d. 1632) - Nizamuddin AhmadNizamuddin AhmadKhwaja Nizam-ud-Din Ahmad was a Muslim historian of late medieval India. He was son of Muhammad Muqim-i-Harawi. He was Akbar's Mir Bakhshi...
(d. 1621) - Inayat Allah Kamboh (d. 1671)
- Muhammad Saleh KambohMuhammad Saleh KambohMuhammad Saleh Kamboh Lahori was a noted Calligraphist and official biographer of Emperor Shah Jahan and the teacher of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. Though a widely read person, little is known of the life of Muhammad Saleh Kamboh other than the works he composed. He was son of Mir Abdu-lla, Mushkin...
(d. ca. 1675) - Abul Fazl MamuriAbul Fazl MamuriAbul Fazl Ma'muri was a historian of the Mughal Empire, during Aurangzeb's reign....
(c. 1700) - Mirza Mehdi Khan AstarabadiMirza Mehdi Khan AstarabadiMirza Mehdi Khan Esterabadi "Etemad-ed-Dowleh" "Monshi-ol-Mamalek" was the chief secretary, historian, biographer, advisor, strategist, friend and confidant of King Nadir Shah Afshar, it was him who wrote and accepted the different decisions and files related to the Empire.-Biography:Mirza Mehdi...
(d. c. 1760) - Ghulam Husain TabatabaiGhulam Husain TabatabaiGhulām Husayn Hān Ṭabāṭabā'ī Hassanī, author and historian, spent most of his life in the midst of the political vicissitudes during the waning days of the Mughal Empire, in particular those events related to the area of what is today the district of West Bengal, India...
(d. after 1781)