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List of Muslim 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.

"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)
* Al-Zuhri (d. 742)

Second era: 750-800

* Ibn Ishaq (d. 761) - Sirah Rasul Allah (The Life of the Apostle of God)
* Abi Mikhnaf (d. 774) - Maqtal al-Husayn
* Sayf ibn Umar (d. 796)

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).
* Al-Madaini (d. 830-850)
* Ibn Hisham (d. 835)
* Ibn Sa'd (d. 845)
* Khalifa ibn Khayyat (d. 854)

Fourth era: 860-900

* Ibn Abd al-Hakam (d. 871) - Futuh Misr wa'l-Maghrib wa akhbaruha
* Umar ibn Shabba (d. 878)
* Al-Haysam ibn Adi (d. 882)
* Ibn Qutaybah (d. 889) - Uyun al-akhbar, Al-Imama wa al-Siyasa[1]
* Al-Dinawari (d. 891) - Akbar al-tiwal
* Baladhuri (d. 892)

Fifth era: 900-950

* Ya'qubi (d. 900) - Tarikh al-Yaqubi
* Ibn Fadlan (d. after 922)
* Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838CE - 923CE) - History of the Prophets and Kings
* 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

* 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").[1]
* Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (d. 1083)
* Ibn al-Imrani (d. 1184)
* Zahir al-Din Nishapuri (d. 1187)
* Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1201)
* Ibn al-Athir (1160–1231) - al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh
* Zahiriddin Nasr Muhammad Aufi (d. 1242)
* Sibt ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1256)
* Ibn al-Sa'i (d. 1276)
* Hamdollah Mostowfi (d. 1281)
* Ibn Bibi (d. after 1281)
* Ata al-Mulk 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)
* Al-Musabbihi (d. 1030)
* Ibn al-Sayrafi (d. 1147)
* 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)
* al-Kalabi (d.1237)
* Sibt ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1256) - Mir'at al-zaman (Mirror of the Time)
* Ibn al-Adim (d. 1262)
* Abu Shama (d. 1267)[2]
* Ibn Khallikan (d. 1282)
* Ibn Abd al-Zahir (d. 1292)
* Baybars al-Mansuri (d. 1325)
* Abu'l-Fida (d. 1331)
* al-Nuwayri (d. 1332)
* Ibn al-Dawadari (d. after 1335)
* al-Mizzi (d. 1341)
* al-Dhahabi (d. 1348) - Tarikh al-Islam al-kabir
* al-Safadi (d. 1363)
* 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 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 1259)
* Amir Khusro (d. 1325)
* Isami (d. after 1350) - Futuh al-Salatin
* Ziauddin Barani (d. 1357)


The early modern historians
Turkish: Ottoman Empire

* Aşıkpaşazade (d. 1481)
* Mehmed Neşrî (d. before 1520)
* İdris-i Bitlisi (d. 1520)
* Kemal Paşa-zade (Ibn-i Kemâl) (d. 1534)
* Matrakçı Nasuh (d. 1564)
* Hoca Sadeddin Efendi (d. 1599)
* Mustafa Ali (d. 1600)
* Mustafa Selaniki (d. 1600)
* Katip Çelebi (d. 1647)
* İbrahim Peçevi (d. 1650)
* Mustafa Naima (1655–1716) - Ta'rīkh-i Na'īmā
* Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Aga (d. 1723)
* Mehmed Raşid (d. 1735)
* Ahmed Resmî Efendi (d. 1783)
* Ahmet Cevdet Pasha (d. 1895)

Arabic: Ottoman Empire and Morocco

* Ibn Iyas (d. after November 1522)
* Shams al-Din ibn Tulun (d. 1546)
* Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (d. 1632)
* Mohammed al-Ifrani (d. 1747)
* Mohammed al-Qadiri (d. 1773)
* Ahmad al-Damurdashi (d. after 1775)
* 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)
* Hasan Beg Rumlu (d. after 1550)
* 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. ca. 1675)
* Abul Fazl Mamuri (c. 1700)
* Khafi Khan (d. after 1733) - Muntakhib-ul-lubab
* Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi (d. c. 1760)
* Ghulam Husain Tabatabai (d. after 1781)

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