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.
Chronological list
The historians of the formative period
First era: 700-750.Second era: 750-800
- Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri
- Ibn Ishaq Sirah Rasul Allah
- Abi Mikhnaf Maqtal al-Husayn
- Hisham ibn al-Kalbi
- Al-Waqidi Kitab al-Tarikh wa'l-Maghazi.
- Ibn Hisham
- Ibn Sa'd
- Khalifa ibn Khayyat
- Ibn Abd al-Hakam Futuh Misr wa'l-Maghrib wa akhbaruha
- Ibn Qutaybah Uyun al-akhbar, Al-Imama wa al-Siyasa
- Al-Dinawari Akbar al-tiwal
- Baladhuri
- Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari History of the Prophets and Kings
- Ya'qubi Tarikh al-Yaqubi
- Ibn Fadlan
- Ibn A'tham al-Futuh
- Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī
The historians of the classical period
[Iraq] and [Iran]
- Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli
- Ali al-Masudi The Meadows of Gold
- Sinan ibn Thabit
- al-Saghani one of the earliest historians of science
- Ibn Miskawayh
- al-Utbi
- Hilal ibn al-Muhassin al-Sabi'
- al-Khatib al-Baghdadi Tarikh Baghdad
- Abolfazl Beyhaqi Tarikh-e Mas'oudi.
- Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi
- Yaqut al-Hamawi author of Mu'jam al-Buldan
- Ibn al-Athir al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh
- Muhammad bin Ali Rawandi Rahat al-sudur,
- Zahiriddin Nasr Muhammad Aufi
- Sibt ibn al-Jawzi
- Hamdollah Mostowfi
- Ibn Bibi
- Ata-Malik Juvayni
- Ibn al-Tiqtaqa
- Ibn al-Fuwati
- Wassaf
- Rashid-al-Din Hamadani Jami al-Tawarikh
- Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi
- Mirkhond Rauzât-us-safâ
[Egypt], Palestine">Palestine (region)">Palestine and [Syria]
- Al-Muqaddasi
- Ẓāhir al-Dīn Nīshāpūrī around 1175
- al-Musabbihi, Akhbar Misr
- Ibn al-Qalanisi
- Ibn Asakir
- Usamah ibn Munqidh
- Imad al-Din al-Isfahani
- Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
- Baha al-Din ibn Shaddad al-Nawādir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya
- Sibt ibn al-Jawzi Mir'at al-zaman
- Ibn al-Adim
- Abu Shama full name Abū Shāma Shihāb al-Dīn al-Maqdisī
- Ibn Khallikan
- Ibn Abd al-Zahir
- Abu'l-Fida
- al-Nuwayri
- al-Mizzi
- al-Dhahabi Tarikh al-Islam al-kabir
- Ibn Kathir al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya
- Ibn al-Furat
- al-Maqrizi al-Suluk li-ma'firat duwwal al-muluk
- Ibn Hajr al-Asqalani
- al-Ayni
- Ibn Taghribirdi Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira
- al-Sakhawi
- al-Suyuti History of the Caliphs
- Mujir al-Din al-'Ulaymi
[al-Andalus] and the [Maghreb]
- Qadi al-Nu'man
- Ibn al-Qūṭiyya Ta'rikh iftitah al-Andalus
- Ibn Faradi
- Ibn Hazm
- Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr
- Ibn Hayyan
- al-Udri
- Abū 'Ubayd 'Abd Allāh al-Bakrī
- Qadi Iyad
- Mohammed al-Baydhaq
- Ibn Rushd
- Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi
- al-Qurtubi
- Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi
- Ibn Idhari
- Ibn Battuta )
- Ibn al-Khatib
- Ibn Abi Zar Rawd al-Qirtas
- Ismail ibn al-Ahmar
- Ibn Khaldun al-Muqaddimah and al-I'bar
India
- al-Bīrūnī Kitab fi Tahqiq ma li'l-Hind, The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries
- Minhaj-i-Siraj
- Amir Khusro
- Ziauddin Barani
- Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman Medieval Indian medical historian
- Sayyid Shamsullah Qadri
The early modern historians
Turkish">Turkish people">Turkish: [Ottoman Empire]
- Aşıkpaşazade
- Tursun Beg
- İdris-i Bitlisi
- Matrakçı Nasuh
- Hoca Sadeddin Efendi
- Mustafa Âlî
- Mustafa Selaniki
- Katip Çelebi
- İbrahim Peçevi
- Evliya Çelebi
- Mustafa Naima Ta'rīkh-i Na'īmā
- Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Aga
- Ahmed Resmî Efendi
- Ahmet Cevdet Pasha
[Arabic]: [Ottoman Empire] and [Morocco]
- Ibn Iyas
- Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari
- Mohammed al-Ifrani
- Mohammed al-Qadiri
- Khalil al-Muradi
- Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti Aja'ib al-athar fi'l-tarajim wa'l-akhbar
- Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri
Persian">Persian language">Persian: [Safavid Empire] and [Mughal India]
- Muhammad Khwandamir
- Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak Akbarnama
- Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni
- Firishta
- Iskandar Beg Munshi
- Nizamuddin Ahmad
- Inayat Allah Kamboh
- Muhammad Saleh Kamboh
- Abul Fazl Mamuri
- Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi
The historians of the modern period
- Mohammad Iqbal