Indices in vols. 24 and 25, including a useful index of hadiths in vol. One must know a man's name, not only his shuhrah , to find his biography, and the identification of quotations is more haphazard. It is still the single most comprehensive of all medieval biographical dictionaries. Catholic Press, 1960.
Second part is an anthology of primary Arabic historiographical works.
Edited and translated into English by Lawrence I. Conrad as The rise of historical writing among the Arabs , introduction by Fred M. Donner, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1983. The translation skips the second part.