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.

Chronological list

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.)

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• 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)

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• 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.

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• Abu Ishaq al-Fazari d.

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• 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 -

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• Al-Asmaʿi -

• Ibn Hisham d.

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• Ibn Sa'd -

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• Wathima ibn Musa d.

• Khalifa ibn Khayyat -

• Ali ibn al-Madini -

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• 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.

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• Ali al-Masudi - The Meadows of Gold

• Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Kindi -

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• Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani -

The Fourth Century AH 300-400 / CE 913–1010

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• Qadi al-Nu'man - (Fatimid) d.

• Ibn al-Qūṭiyya (Anadalusian) d. Ta'rikh iftitah al-Andalus

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• 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).

Historians by Region

Arabian Peninsula, Mesopotamia and Persia

• Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1201)

• Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179–1229) author of Mu'jam al-Buldan ("The Dictionary of Countries")

• Ibn al-Athir (1160–1231) al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh

• Muhammad bin Ali Rawandi (c.1204) Rahat al-sudur, (a history of the Great Seljuq Empire and its break-up into minor beys)

• Zahiriddin Nasr Muhammad Aufi (d. 1242)

• Sibt ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1256)

• Hamdollah Mostowfi (d. 1281)

• Ibn Bibi (d. after 1281)

• Ata-Malik 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

• Ẓāhir al-Dīn Nīshāpūrī around 1175

• Ibn al-Qalanisi (d. 1160)

• Ibn Asakir (d. 1176)

• Usamah ibn Munqidh (d. 1188)

• Imad al-Din al-Isfahani (d. 1201)

• Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah (d. 1202)

• 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/CE 1203–68) full name Abū Shāma Shihāb al-Dīn al-Maqdisī

• 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

• List of historians

• Lists of Islamic scholars

Notes

References

• Robinson, Chase F. (2003), Cambridge University Press, . 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.