25 results for “historian”

One of the seven fuqaha of Medina and a pioneer of seerah, nephew of Aisha.

One of the seven great jurists of Madinah and a pioneer of Islamic historiography. The son of Zubayr ibn al-Awwam and Asma bint Abi Bakr, Urwah transmitted exte

Author of the earliest biography of Prophet Muhammad, preserved through Ibn Hisham editing.

Author of at-Tabaqat al-Kubra, the first major biographical dictionary of the Prophet companions and successors.

Editor of Ibn Ishaq seerah, producing as-Sirah an-Nabawiyyah, the standard biography of the Prophet.

Author of the monumental Tafsir at-Tabari and Tarikh at-Tabari, the most comprehensive classical tafsir.

Author of the monumental Tafsir at-Tabari and Tarikh at-Tabari (History of Prophets and Kings). His tafsir is the most comprehensive classical commentary on the

Author of Hilyat al-Awliya, a monumental biographical encyclopedia of pious Muslims from the Companions to the early Sufis. Also compiled Dala'il an-Nubuwwah on

Author of Tarikh Baghdad and pioneering works on hadith methodology.

A prolific Hanbali scholar and preacher of Baghdad, author of over 700 works.

Author of al-Kamil fi at-Tarikh, one of the most important histories of the Islamic world.

The foremost historian of Islam and hadith critic, author of Siyar Alam an-Nubala ...

Author of Tafsir Ibn Kathir and al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah, among the most widely used references.

Shafii scholar and author of Tabaqat ash-Shafiiyyah al-Kubra, the largest biographical dictionary of Shafii scholars.

Pioneer of historiography and sociology, author of the Muqaddimah on philosophy of history.

The foremost student of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. Author of ad-Daw al-Lami, a biographical dictionary of 15th-century figures, and Fath al-Mughith on hadith method

Brother of Uthman dan Fodio, a major West African scholar, poet, and military commander of the Sokoto Caliphate.

Shafi'i historian and scholar of Damascus, teacher of an-Nawawi, author of 'a...

Damascene scholar and author of 'Subul al-Huda war-Rashad,' one of the most comprehensive books on the Prophetic biography (sirah).

Historian and hadith scholar of Jurjan, author of 'Tarikh Jurjan,' a ...

Mufti of the Shafi'i school in Mecca and historian, author of works on Prophetic biography and the history of ...

Indian Islamic scholar and author of 'Madha Khasira al-Alam bi Inhitat al-Muslimin' (What the World Lost by the Decline of Muslims), a seminal work on Islamic c

Hanbali scholar and author of 'Shadharat adh-Dhahab,' a major biographical history organized chronologically by year of death.

Indian scholar and author of 'Nuzhat al-Khawatir,' an eight-volume biographical dictionary of Islamic scholars in the Indian subcontinent.

Egyptian scholar and historian, author of popular works on Islamic history, jurisprudence,...