List of Muslim historians

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.

Contents

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.

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

The historians of the classical period

Iraq and Iran

Egypt, Palestine and Syria

  • Al-Muqaddasi (d.1000)
  • 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 (d. 1267)[3]
  • Ibn Khallikan (d. 1282)
  • 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

India and Pakistan

Further information: Muslim chronicles for Indian history

The early modern historians

Turkish: Ottoman Empire

Arabic: Ottoman Empire and Morocco

Persian: Safavid Empire and Mughal India

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b (Robinson hasn't mentioned his name.)
  2. ^ Bianquis, "Al-Musabbihi", Encyclopaedia of Islam, Leiden: Brill, 1960-2004.
  3. ^ (1969): Livre des deux jardins ("The Book of Two Gardens"). See: Recueil des Historiens des Croisades
  4. ^ "Tursun Beg." Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill, 1960-2004.

References

  • Robinson, Chase F. (2003), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521629365 : XIV and XV
  • Babinger, Franz. Geschichtsschreiber der Osmanen. Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1927.
  • Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill, 1960-2004.

See also

http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmanlı_tarihçileri


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