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Ibn ‘Abd Rabbihi (860-940) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Sat 04 August, 2007 |
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We still have al-Iqd al-Farid (The Precious Necklace) of Ibn ‘Abd Rabbihi which includes among a multiplicity of matters, a history of the Umayyads of Spain, culminating with a rajaz poem on the military expeditions under Abd Al-Rahman III an-Nassir.
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Ibn Idhari al-Marrakushi (1312 C.E.) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Sat 04 August, 2007 |
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Ibn Idhari al-Marrakushi wrote in 1312 a history of Africa and Spain, Kitâb al-Bayan al-Mughrib, which includes the most detailed account of the Ummayads of Cordova.
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Al-Marrakushi (1185-1230 C.E.) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Sat 04 August, 2007 |
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In 1224 Al-Marrakushi completed a history of the Almohad dynasty, preceded by a summary of Spanish history from the Muslim conquest to 1087 (Kitab al-Mujib fi Talkhis Akhbar ahl al-Maghrib).
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Abdus al-Jahshiyari (d. 942) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Sat 04 August, 2007 |
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Abdus al-Jahshiyari authored Kitâb al-Wuzara' wa'l-Kuttab (Book of the Viziers and Secretaries), an extensive work which began in pre-Islamic times, and gave an account of the secretaries of the Prophet (pbuh)
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Al-Sûlî (d. 946) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Sat 04 August, 2007 |
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Al-Sûlî authored a literary history, Kitâb al-Awraq fî Akbar Ahl al-Abbas wa Sha'rihim (Book of Pages on the History of the Abbasids and their Poetry).
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Al-Tabarî (d. 923) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Sat 04 August, 2007 |
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Al-Tabarî's acquisition of knowledge was to embrace not only history, Qur'an exegesis, Hadith and Fiqh, but he also possibly wrote in the field of ethics and had an educated person's interest in Arabic poetry.
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Ibn Qutayba (d. 889) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 03 August, 2007 |
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Ibn Qutayba's Kitâb al-Ma'arif or 'Handbook of History' as it was entitled by its nineteenth-century editor, is one of the oldest surviving purely historical works of the Arabs.
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Al-Azraqî (d. 834) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 03 August, 2007 |
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One of the earliest examples of town and city history is that of al-Azraqî. In his Akhbar Makka al-M'usharrafa (Chronicles of Mecca the Glorious) he describes the history and character of Mecca.
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Ibn Sa’ad (d. 845) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 03 August, 2007 |
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With Ibn Sa'ad begins a new genre which initiates biographies of Tabaqats (classes). His treatise Kitâb al-Tabaqat al-Kabîr (the Great Book of Classes) deals with the biographies of the Prophet (pbuh) and his companions and later dignitaries of Islam till 845.
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Ibn Hisham (d. 833) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 03 August, 2007 |
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As a recession of Ibn Ishaq's work, the work of Ibn Hashim represents one of the best and earliest existing authorities on the life of the Prophet (pbuh).
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