Historians of the Formative Period The First Century BH 50 to AH 50 / CE 570–618 The
Companions of the Prophet and the early
Tabi'in (first generation) who left written works (some no longer extant, but are cited verbatim elsewhere.) • - •
Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As - -
Al-Sahifah al-Sadiqah •
Urwah ibn Zubayr - •
Sa'id ibn Jubayr - •
Mujahid ibn Jabr - •
Aban bin Uthman bin Affan - •
Wahb ibn Munabbih - •
Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri -
The First Century - AH 50 to AH100 / CE 618–718 Latter Tabi'in and early
Tabi' al-Tabi'in •
Musa ibn ʿUqba - •
Hisham ibn Urwah - •
Muhammad ibn as-Sā'ib al-Kalbī - •
Awana ibn al-Hakam d. •
Ibn Ishaq -
Sirah Rasul Allah (The Life of the Apostle of God) • - •
Abu Ma'shar al-Sindi al-Madani - •
Abi Mikhnaf d.
Maqtal al-Husayn • d. •
Ibn Lahi'a - •
Malik ibn Anas - -
Founder of the Maliki Madhab •
Sayf ibn Umar -
Historians of the Classical Period The Second Century AH 100-200 / CE 718–815 Latter Tabi' al-Tabi'in Historians - Era contemporaneous with
Umayyad decline and
Abbasid Rise. • - •
Abu Ishaq al-Fazari d. • d. •
Hisham ibn al-Kalbi - •
Al-Waqidi - ''Kitab al-Tarikh wa'l-Maghazi'' (Book of History and Battles). •
Al-Haytham ibn 'Adi d. •
Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani - • - •
Al-Asmaʿi - •
Ibn Hisham d. • - •
Ibn Sa'd - • - • - •
Wathima ibn Musa d. •
Khalifa ibn Khayyat - •
Ali ibn al-Madini - • - •
Muhammad ibn Habib al-Baghdadi d. •
Al-Jahiz - •
Ibn Habib - •
Muhammad al-Bukhari -
Sahih al-Bukhari,
The Great History •
Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār - •
Ibn Abd al-Hakam - ''Futuh Misr wa'l-Maghrib wa akhbaruha''
The Third Century AH 200-300 / CE 815–913 •
Omar ibn Shabba d. •
Ibn Majah - •
Abu Dawud - •
Ibn Qutaybah -
Uyun al-akhbar,
Al-Imama wa al-Siyasa •
Al-Baladhuri - •
Al-Dinawari -
Akbar al-tiwal •
Ibrahim Al-Thaqafi d. •
al-Tirmidhi - •
Al-Fakihi - •
Umara ibn Wathima d. •
Aslam ibn Sahl ibn Aslam d. •
Ya'qubi d. or
Tarikh al-Yaqubi •
Al-Nasa'i - •
Ibn Fadlan d. after •
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari -
History of the Prophets and Kings •
Ibn A'tham d.
al-Futuh •
Ibn Wahshiyya d. •
Abu Ahmed Al-Jaloudi d. •
Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi - •
Sinan ibn Thabit d. •
Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī - •
Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli d. • - •
Ali al-Masudi -
The Meadows of Gold •
Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Kindi - • - •
Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani -
The Fourth Century AH 300-400 / CE 913–1010 • d. •
Qadi al-Nu'man - (
Fatimid) d. •
Ibn al-Qūṭiyya (
Anadalusian) d. ''Ta'rikh iftitah al-Andalus'' • d. •
al-Saghani d. one of the earliest
historians of science •
Al-Muqaddasi - -
Aḥsan al-taqāsīm has a detailed description on his birthplace in Palestine and the Levant •
Ibn an-Nadīm - •
al-Daraqutni - •
Ibn Faradi (Anadalusian) - •
al-Musabbihi (Fatimid) - ,
Akhbar Misr •
Ibn Miskawayh - •
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Jabbar al-Utbi d. •
al-Bīrūnī - ''Kitab fi Tahqiq ma li'l-Hind'' (Researches on India),
The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries •
Hilal ibn al-Muhassin al-Sabi' - •
al-Khatib al-Baghdadi -
Tarikh Baghdad (a biographical dictionary of major Baghdadi figures) •
Abolfazl Beyhaqi d. ''Tarikh-e Mas'oudi
(also known as Tarikh-e Beyhaqi''). •
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 •
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 •
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) •
Tamim Ansary •
Seyyed Hossein Nasr •
Zaynulla Rasulev •
Abdurauf Fitrat •
Farid Esack •
Leila Ahmed •
Aysha Hidayatullah •
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod •
Lila Abu-Lughod •
Rashid Khalidi •
Carole Hillenbrand •
Laleh Bakhtiar •
Ingrid Mattson ==See also==