Islamic Historians List

Sample Bibliography on Islamic Historiography
Islamic Studies Reading Room, 602 Butler Library (Non-Circulating).

Compiled by Casey Primel and Kaoukab Chebaro, ColumbiaUniversity Libraries.
(September 2009)

Ibn Qutaybah (d.889)

Ibn Qutaybah, . A. i. M. (1964). Uyūn al-akhbār. [al-Qahirah]: al-Muassasah al-Miṣrīyah al-āmmah lil-taʼlīf wa-al-tarjamah wa-al-Nashr.
Call No.: PJ7617 .I2

Al-Baladhuri (d. 892)

Balā dhurī, A. i. Y., & ‘Aẓm, M. F. (1997).Ansā b al-ashrā f. Dimashq: Dā r al-Yaqaẓah.
Call No.: DS234 .B213 1990z

Balā dhurī, A. i. Y., & Hitti, P. K. (2002).The origins of the Islamic state, Being a translation from the Arabic accompanied with annotations, geographic and historic notes of the Kitâ b futû ḥ al-buldâ n of al-Imâ m abu-l ‘Abbâ s Aḥmad ibn-Jâ bir al-Balâ dhuri. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press.
Call No.: DS234 .B232 2002

Muhammad ibn Jarir al Tabari(838-923)

Ṭabarī. (1985). The history of al-Ṭabarī = Tarīkh al-rusul wa'l mulūk. SUNY series in Near Eastern studies. Albany: StateUniversity of New York
Call No.: DS38.2 .T313 1985 Location Has: v.1-4,6-7,9-15,17-27,29-38

Ibn Hazm (d. 1063)

Ibn Ḥazm, ‘. i. A., & Shams al-Dī n, A. (1996).Al-Faṣl fī al-milal wa-al-ahwā ’ wa-al-niḥal. Bayrū t: Dā r al-Kutub al-‘Ilmī yah.
Call No.: BP191 .I163 1996

Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi (d. 1071)

Dallā l, S. M. S., Khaṭī b al-Baghdā dī, A. B. A. i. ‘., Dhahabī, M. i. A., Ibn al-Najjā r al-Baghdā dī, Ibn al-Dubaythī, M. i. S., & Ibn al-Dimyā ṭī, A. i. A. (1992).Taqrī b tarā jim Tā rī kh Baghdā d, ma’a Dhaylayhi, wa-Istifā dā t al-Dimyā ṭī . Madī nat Naṣr, al-Qā hirah: Dā r al-I’lā m al-Dawlī .
Call No.: DS79.89.B25 D35 1992

Khaṭī b al-Baghdā dī, A. B. A. i. ‘., & Ā l Zahwī, A. ‘. A. a.-S. a.-D. i. M. (2001).
Taqy ī D al-‘ilm. Ṣaydā: al-Maktabah al-‘Aṣrī yah.
Call No.: BP135 .K53 2001g

Ibn ‘Abd Al-Barr (d. 1071)

Ibn Abd al-Barr, Y. i. ‘. A., ‘Aṭā, S. M., Mu’awwaḍ, M. '., & Mā lik ibn Anas. (2000).
Al-Istidhkā r: Al-jā m' li-madhā hib fuqahā ’ al-amṣā r wa-‘ulamā ’ al-aqṭā r fī mā taḍammanahu al-Muwaṭṭa’ min ma’ā nī al-ra’y wa-al-ā thā r wa-sharḥ dhĀ lika kullihi bi-al-ī jā z wa-al-ikhtiṣā r. Bayrū t: Dā r al-Kutub al-‘Ilmī yah.
Call No.: KBL .I211 2000g

Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr, Y. i. ‘. A., & Abū Ghuddah, ‘. a.-F. (1997).Al-Intiqā ’ fī faḍā ’il al-a’immah al-thalā thah al-fuqahā ’: Mā lik ibn Anas al-Aṣbaḥī al-Madanī wa-Muḥammad ibn Idrī s al-Shā fi’ī al-Muṭṭalibī wa-Abī Ḥanī fah al-Nu’mā n ibn Thā bit al-Kū fī wa-‘uyū n akhbā rihim al-shā hidah bi-imā matihim wa-faḍlihim fī ā dā bihim wa-‘ilmihim.
Ḥalab: Maktab al-Maṭbū ’ā t al-Islā mī yah.
Call No.: BP70 .I14 1997g

Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr, Y. i. ‘. A., & Mū rī tā nī, M. M. A. W. M. (1980).Kitā b al-kā fī fī fiqh ahl al-Madī nah al-Mā likī . al-Riyā d: Maktabat al-Riyā ḍ al-Ḥadī thah.
Call No.: BP135.A2 I1185 1980g

Abu Ishaq Al-Shirazi (d. 1083)

Fī Rū zā bā dī al-Shī rā zī, A. I. I. i. ‘. i. Y., & Ḥalabī, M. B. a.-D. a.-N. (2005).
Kitā b al-luma’ fī uṣū l al-fiqh. al-Qā hirah: Maktabat al-Kullī yā t al-Azharī yah.
Call No.: BP145 .F57 2005g

Fī Rū zā bā dī al-Shī rā zī, A. I. I. i. ‘. i. Y., Turkī, ‘. a.-M., & Fī Rū zā bā dī al-Shī rā zī, A. I. I. i. ‘. i. Y. (1988).Sharḥ al-Luma’. Bayrū t, Lubnā n: Dā r al-Gharb al-Islā mī .
Call No.: KBL .F57 1988g

Al-Qadi ‘Iyad (d. 1149)

‘Iyā ḍ ibn Mū sá, & Suyū ṭī . (1983).Bughyat al-rā ’id li-mā taḍammanahu ḥadī th Umm Zar’ min al-fawā ’id. [Cairo]: Maktabat al-Furqān.
Call No.: BP136.8 .I92 1983g

‘Iyā ḍ ibn Mū sá, & Bin ‘Abd al-Karī m, M. (1978).Al-Ghunyah: Fihrist shuyū kh al-Qā ḍī ‘Iyā ḍ. Lībiyā: al-Dā r al-‘Arabī yah lil-Kitā b.
Call No.: BP70 .I918 1982b

‘Iyā ḍ ibn Mū sá. (1997).Mashā riq al-anwā r alá ṣiḥā ḥ al-ā thā r. Beirut: Dā r al-Fikr li al-Tibā ’ah wa al-nashr.
Call No.: BP135.2 .I9 1997

Abu al Faraj Ibn al Jawzi (d.1201)

Ibn al-Jawzī, A. a.-F. ‘. a.-R. i. ‘., & ‘Abd al-Qā dir, ‘. a.-Q. A. (1989).Aḥkā m al-niṣā ’.
Ḥawallī, al-Kuwayt: Maktabat Dā r Ibn Qutaybah.
Call No.: BP188.3.W6 I36 1989

Ibn al-Jawzī, A. a.-F. ‘. a.-R. i. ‘., Abū GhazĀ lah, H. N., & Saqqā f, H. i. ‘. (1991).
Daf’ shubah al-tashbī h bi-akuff al-tanzī h. ‘Ammā n: Dā r al-Imā m al-Nawawī .
Call No.: BP166.2 .I2154 1991g

Ibn al-Jawzī, A. a.-F. ‘. a.-R. i. ‘. (1987). Dhamm al-hawá. Bayrū t, Lubnā n: Dā r al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyah.
Call No.: HQ31 .I13 1987g

Ibn al-Jawzī, A. a.-F. ‘. a.-R. i. ‘., & Ḥallā q, M. S. H. (1993).Ikhbā r ahl al-rusū kh fī al-fiqh wa-al-taḥdī th bi-miqdā r al-mansū kh min al-ḥadī th. Bayrū t: Dā r Ibn Ḥazm.
Call No.: BP130.3 .I48 1993g

Abu Shama (d. 1267)

Abū Shā mah, ‘. a.-R. i.I., & Baysū mī, A. (1991).‘Uyū n al-rawḍatayn fī akhbā r al-dawlatayn al-Nū rī yah wa-al-Ṣalā hī yah. Iḥyā ’ al-turā th al-‘Arabī, 88, 90. Dimashq: Wizā rat al-Thaqā fah.
Call No.: DS97.3 .A25 1991g

Abū Shā mah, ‘. a.-R. i.I., Jā dū, M. i. ‘. a.-K. M., & Shā ṭibī, a.-Q. i. F. (1992).Ibrā z al-ma’ā nī min Ḥirz al-amā nī fī al-qirā ’ā t al-sab’: Lil-Imā m al-Shā ṭibī al-mutawaffá sanat 59O H. [al-Madī nah]: al-Mamlakah al-‘Arabī yah al-Sa’ū dī yah, al-Jā mi’ah al-Islā mī yah bi-al-madī nah al-Munawwarah, Kullī yat al-Qur’ā n al-Karī m wa-al-Dirā sā t al-Islā mī yah.
Call No.: BP131.5 .A224 1992

Ibn Khallikan (d. 1282)

Ibn Khallikā n, & Slane, W. M. (1970). Ibn Khallikan's biographical dictionary.
Beirut: Librairie du Liban.
Call No.: DS38.4.A2 I2613 1970

Al-Nuwayri (d.1332)

Nuwayrī, A. i. ‘. a.-W., & Aḥmad, M. A. D. (1988).
Nihā yat al-arab fī funū n al-adab: Al-dawlah al-Fā ṭimī yah bi-bilā d al-Maghrib (296-361 H./ 909-972 M.). [Morocco]: M.A.D. Aḥmad.
Call No.: DT173 .N87 1988g

Al Dhahabi (d.1348)

Dhahabī, M. i. A., & Saʻd, Q. ʻ. (1986). Al-Amṣār dhawāt al-āthār. Bayrūt: Dār al-Bashāʼir al-Islāmīyah.
Call No.: DS38.2 .D42 1986g

Ibn Al-Dawadari (d.1335)

Ibn al-Dawā dā rī, A. B. i. ‘. A., & Radtke, B. (1960).
Kanz al-durar wa-jā mi’ al-ghurar, ta’lī f Abī Bakr ibn 'Abd Allā h ibn Aybak al-Dawā dā rī . al-Qā hirah: Qism al-Dirā sā t al-Islā mī yah, al-Ma’had al-Almā nī lil-Ā thā r bi-al-Qā hirah. Islamic Studies Reading Rm, 602 Butler(Non-Circulating)
Call No.: DT17 .I124 1960g

Al-Mizzi (d. 1341)

Mizzī, Y. i. a.-Z. ‘. a.-R., & Ma’ruf, B. ‘. (1999). Tuḥfat al-ashrā f bi-ma’rifat al-aṭrā f. Bayrū t: Dā r al-Gharb al-Islā mī .
Call No.: BP135.2 .M5 1999g

Mizzī, Yū suf i. a.-Zakī. ‘. a.-R., & Ma’rū f, B. ‘. (1985).Tahdhī b al-Kamā l fī asmā ’ al-rijā l. 35 vols. Bayrut: Mu'assasat al-Risā lah.
Call No.: BP136.48 .M59 2002g

Al-Dhahabi (d. 1348)

Dhahabī, M. i. A., & Sa’d, Q. ‘. (1986). Al-Amṣā r dhawā t al-ā thā r. Bayrū t: Dā r al-Bashā ’ir al-Islā mī yah. Islamic Studies Reading Rm, 602 (Non-Circulating)
Call No.: DS38.2 .D42 1986g

Dhahabī, M. i. A., & Murā d, Y. (2004). Al-‘Iqd al-thamī n fī tarā jim al-naḥwiy ī n.
al-Qā hirah: Da r al-Ḥadī th.
Call No.: PJ6063 .D53 2004g

Dhahabī, M. i. A., ‘Umayrā t, Z., Ḥusaynī, S. a.-D. M. i. ‘., Ibn Fahd, T. a.-D. M. a.-M., & Suyū ṭī . (1998).Kitā b Tadhkirat al-ḥuffāẓ. Bayrū t: Dā r al-Kutub al-‘Ilmī yah.
Call No.: BP136.48 .D55 1990z

Al-Safadi (d.1363)

Ṣafadī, K. i. A., Munajjid, S. a.-D., & Ṣafadī, K. i. A. (1983).Umarā ’ Dimashq fī al-Islā m: Wa-huwa yataḍammanu "Dhikr man waliya imrat Dimashq fī al-Islā m aw dakhalahā min al-khulafā ’["] murattabī n ‘alá ḥurū f al-mu’jam ; wa-urjū zat "Tuḥfat dhawī al-albā b fī man ḥakima bi-Dimashq min al-khulafā ’ wa-al-mulū k wa-al-nū wā b."
Bayrū t, Lubnā n: Dā r al-Kitā b al-Jadī D.
Call No.: DS99.D3 S23 1983

Ṣafadī, K. i. A., Sezgin, F., & ‘Amā wī, M. (1990).A’yā n al-‘aṣr wa-a’wā n al-naṣr. Manshū rā t Ma’had Tā rī kh al-‘Ulū m al-‘Arabī yah wa-al-Islā mī yah, mujallad 50.
Frā nkfū rt, Jumhū rī yat Almā niyā al-Ittiḥā dī yah: Ma’had Tā rī kh al-‘Ulū m al-‘Arabī yah wa-al-Islā mī yah.
Call No.: DS238.M79 S24 1990g

Ibn Kathir (d.1373)

Ibn Kathī r, I. i. ‘. (1966).Al-Bidā yah wa-al-nihā yah. Bayrū t: Maktabat al-Ma’ā rif.
Call No.: D17 .I13

Ibn Kathī r, I. i. ‘. (1987).Shamā ’il al-Rasū l wa-dalā ’il nubū watihi wa-faḍā ’ilihi wa-khaṣā ’iṣih. Bayrū t, Lubnā n : Dar al-Ra’id al-‘Arabi.
Call No.: BP75.2 .I199 1987g

Ibn Kathī r, I. i. ‘., & Kubbī, Z. S. (1990).Faḍā ’il al-Qur’ā n. Bayrū t: Dā r al-Fikr al-‘Arabī .
Call No.: BP130 .I33 1990g

Ibn Kathī r, I. i. ‘., & Jalī mī, S. i. ‘. (1990).Al-Fuṣū l fī sī Rat al-Rasū l. al-Qā hirah: Dā r al-Ṣafā lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzī ’ wa-al-Tijarah.
Call No.: BP75 .I24 1990g

Ibn Kathī r, I. i. ‘., & Fā ḍilī, M. ‘. a.-Q. (1997).Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā ’. Ṣaydā: al-Maktabah al-‘Aṣrī yah.
Call No.: BP137 .I25 1997

Hilā lī, T. a.-D., Qurṭubī, M. i. A., Khan, M. M., Ibn Kathī r, I. i. ‘., & Mujahid, A. M. (1995).Tafsī r ma’ā nī al-Qur’ā n al-Karī m bi-al-lughah al-Injilī zī yah: Muqtabas min tafsī r al-Ṭabarī wa-al-Qurṭubī wa-Ibn Kathī r ma’a Ṣaḥī ḥ al-Bukharī . New Dehli: Royal.
Call No.: BP130.4 .T3674 2000g

Al-Maqrizi (d. 1442)

Maqrī zī, A. i. ‘., & Ziyā dah, M. M. (1934).Kitā b al-Sulū k li-ma’rifat duwal al-mulū k.
al-Qā hirah: Maṭba’at Lajnat al-Ta’lī f wa-al-Tarjamah wa-al-Nashr.
Call No.: DT96 .M22

Maqrī zī, A. i. ‘., & Ya’lā wī, M. (1987).Kitā b al-Muqaffá al-kabī r: Tarā jim Maghribī yah wa-Mashriqī yah min al-fatrah al-‘Ubaydī yah. Bayrū t: Dā r al-Gharb al-Islā mī .
Call No.: DT183 .M37 1987g

Ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalani (d. 1449)

Ibn Ḥajar al-‘Asqalā nī, A. i. ‘. (1963).Hady al-sā rī : Muqaddimat Fatḥ al-bā rī . Miṣr: Muṣạfá al-Bā bī al-Ḥalabī .
Call No.: BP135.A128 I322 1963g

Ibn Ḥajar al-‘Asqalā nī, A. i. ‘. (1972).Durar al-Kā minah fī a’yā n al-mi’ah al-thā minah. Ḥaydarabad al-Dakan, al-Hind: Maṭba’at Majlis Dā ’irat al-Ma’ā rif al-‘Uthmā nī yah.
Call No.: DS38.4.A2 I2573 1972

Ibn Ḥajar al-‘Asqalā nī, A. i. ‘., & ‘Abd al-Hā dī, R. ‘. A. (1988).Fahā ris al-dirā yah fī takhrī j aḥā dī th al-hidā yah. Bayrū t: Dā r al-Ma’rifah.
Call No.: BP135.2 .I28 1988g

Al-‘Ayni (d. 1451)

‘Aynī, B. a.-D. M. i. A., & Bukhā rī, M. i.I. (1970).‘Umdat al-qā rī : Sharḥ Ṣaḥī ḥ al-Bukhā rī . Bayrū t: Muḥammad Amī n Damj.
Call No.: BP135.A128 A88 1979

‘Aynī, B. a.-D. M. i. A., & Khaṭī B, A. M. N. (1994).Kashf al-qinā ’ al-murná ‘an muhimmā t al-asā mi wa-al-kunná. Jiddah, al-Mamlakah al-‘Arabī yah al-Sa’ū dī yah: Markaz al-Nashr al-‘Ilmī, Jā mi’at al-Malik ‘Abd al-‘Azī z.
Call No.: CS2970 .A96 1994g

‘Aynī, B. a.-D. M. i. A., & Miṣrī, A. a.-M. K. i.I. (1999).Sharḥ Sunan Abī Dā wud.
al-Riyā ḍ: Maktabat al-Rushd.
Call No.: BP135.A138 A86 1999g

Al-Sakhawi (d. 1497)

Sakhā wī, M. i. ‘. a.-R. (1993).Al-Tuḥfah al-laṭī fah fī tā rī kh al-Madī nah al-sharī fah.
Bayrū t, Lubnā n: Dā r al-Kutub al-‘Ilmī yah.
Call No.: DS248.M5 S25 1993g

Sakhā wī, M. i. ‘. a.-R., Ma’rū f, B. ‘., Ḥarastā nī, ‘., & Khuṭaymī, A. (1995).Wajī z al-kalā m fī al-dhayl ‘alá Duwal al-Islā m. Bayrū t: Mu’assasat al-Risā lah.
Call No.: DS38.2 .D44 1995g

Sakhā wī, M. i. ‘. a.-R., & ‘Abd al-Majī d, I. B. (1999).Al-Jawā hir wa-al-durar fī tarjamat Shaykh al-Islā m Ibn Ḥajar. Bayrū t: Dā r Ibn Ḥazm.
Call No.: DT76.9.I23 S25 1999

Sakhā wī, M. i. ‘. a.-R., & ‘Awwā mah, M. (2002).Al-Qawl al-badī ’ fī al-ṣalā h ‘alá al-ḥabī B al-shafī ’. Bayrū t: Mu’assasat al-Rayyā n.
Call No.: BP75.2 .S24 2002g

Sakhā wī, M. i. ‘. a.-R., ‘Irā qī, ‘. a.-R. i. a.-H., Khuḍayr, ‘. a.-K. i. ‘. A., & Ā l Fuhayd, M. i. ‘. A. i. F. (2005).Fatḥ al-mughī th bi-sharḥ Alfī yat al-Ḥadī th. al-Riyā ḍ: Maktabat Dā r al-Minhā j.
Call No.: BP135.I74 S353 2007

Al- Suyuti (d. 1505)

Suyū ṭī . (1963).Asbā b al-nuzū l. al-Qā hirah: [Dā r al-Taḥrī r lil-Ṭibā ’ah wa-al-Nashr].
Call No.: BP130.4 .S85 1963

Suyū ṭī, ‘Abd al-Ḥamī d, M. M. a.-D., Ibn Muḥammad, A. M. T. i. ‘. A., & Suyū ṭī . (2004).Alfī yat al-Suyū ṭī fī muṣṭalaḥ al-Ḥadī th. al-Dammā m: Dā r Ibn al-Qayyim.
Call No.: BP135 .S88 2004