# 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
### Historians of the formative period

First era: 700–750 (Ibn Zubayr and al-Zuhri's histories no longer exist, but they are referenced in later works).
* Urwah ibn Zubayr (d. 712)
* Aban bin Uthman bin Affan (d. 723)
* Wahb ibn Munabbih (d. 735)
Second era: 750–800
* Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri (d.741)
* Ibn Ishaq (d. 761) Sirah Rasul Allah (The Life of the Apostle of God)
* Abi Mikhnaf (d. 774) Maqtal al-Husayn
Third era: 800–860
* Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (d. 819)
* Al-Waqidi (d. 823) Kitab al-Tarikh wa'l-Maghazi (Book of History and Battles).
* Ibn Hisham (d. 835)
* Ibn Sa'd (d. 845)
* Khalifa ibn Khayyat (d. 854)
* Muhammad ibn Habib al-Baghdadi (d. 860)
Fourth era: 860–900
* Ibn Abd al-Hakam (d. 871) Futuh Misr wa'l-Maghrib wa akhbaruha
* Ibn Qutaybah (d. 889) Uyun al-akhbar, Al-Imama wa al-Siyasa
* Al-Dinawari (d. 891) Akbar al-tiwal
* Baladhuri (d. 892)
* Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838–923) History of the Prophets and Kings
Fifth era: 900–950
* Ya'qubi (d. 900) Tarikh al-Yaqubi
* Ibn Fadlan (d. after 922)
* Ibn A'tham (d. 314/926-27) al-Futuh
* Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī (d. 945)

### Historians of the classical period
#### Iraq and Iran

* Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (d. 946)
* Ali al-Masudi (d. 955) The Meadows of Gold
* Sinan ibn Thabit (d. 976)
* al-Saghani (d. 990) one of the earliest historians of science
* Ibn Miskawayh (d. 1030)
* al-Utbi (d. 1036)
* Hilal ibn al-Muhassin al-Sabi' (d. 1056)
* al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (d. 1071) Tarikh Baghdad (a biographical dictionary of major Baghdadi figures)
* Abolfazl Beyhaqi (995–1077) Tarikh-e Mas'oudi (also known as Tarikh-e Beyhaqi).
* 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

* Al-Muqaddasi (d.1000)
* Ẓāhir al-Dīn Nīshāpūrī around 1175
* al-Musabbihi (d. 1030), Akhbar Misr
* Ibn al-Qalanisi (d. 1160)
* Ibn Asakir (d. 1176)
* Usamah ibn Munqidh (d. 1188)
* Imad al-Din al-Isfahani (d. 1201)
* 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/AD 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

* Qadi al-Nu'man (d. 974)
* Ibn al-Qūṭiyya (d. 977) Ta'rikh iftitah al-Andalus
* Ibn Faradi (d. 1012)
* 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

* al-Bīrūnī (d. 1048) Kitab fi Tahqiq ma li'l-Hind (Researches on India), The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries
* 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)