List of Muslim historians

{{See also|Historiography of early Islam|List of biographies of Muhammad}}

The Companions of the Prophet and the early Tabi'in (first generation) who left written works (some no longer extant, but are cited verbatim elsewhere.)

• {{ill|Suhar Al-Abdi|ar|صحار العبدي}} {{BH|25|594}} - {{AH|60|link=y}}
• Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As {{BH|27|595}} - {{AH|65}} - Al-Sahifah al-Sadiqah
• Urwah ibn Zubayr {{AH|23}} - {{AH|94}}
• Sa'id ibn Jubayr {{AH|23}} - {{AH|95}}

• Mujahid ibn Jabr {{AH|21}} - {{AH|104}}
• Aban bin Uthman bin Affan {{AH|20}} - {{AH|105}}
• Wahb ibn Munabbih {{AH|34}} - {{AH|114}}
• Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri {{AH|49}} - {{AH|124}}

Latter Tabi'in and early Tabi' al-Tabi'in

• Musa ibn ʿUqba {{AH|55}} - {{AH|141}}
• Hisham ibn Urwah {{AH|61}} - {{AH|146}}
• Muhammad ibn as-Sā'ib al-Kalbī {{AH|55}} - {{AH|146}}
• Awana ibn al-Hakam d. {{AH|147}}
• Ibn Ishaq {{AH|80}} - {{AH|151}} Sirah Rasul Allah (The Life of the Apostle of God)
• {{ill|Al-Sharqi bin Al-Qatmi|ar|الشرقي بن القطامي}} {{AH|80}} - {{AH|155}}
• Abu Ma'shar al-Sindi al-Madani {{AH|80}} - {{AH|170}}
• Abi Mikhnaf d. {{AH|170}} Maqtal al-Husayn
• {{ill|Isa ibn Yazid ibn Da'b al-Laythi|ar|عيسى بن يزيد بن دأب الليثي}} d. {{AH|171}}
• Ibn Lahi'a {{AH|96}} - {{AH|174}}
• Malik ibn Anas {{AH|93}} - {{AH|179}} - Founder of the Maliki Madhab
• Sayf ibn Umar {{AH|90}} - {{AH|180}}

Latter Tabi' al-Tabi'in Historians - Era contemporaneous with Umayyad decline and Abbasid Rise.

• {{ill|Abu Ismail al-Azdi|ar|أبو إسماعيل الأزدي}} {{AH|110}} - {{AH|170}}
• Abu Ishaq al-Fazari d. {{AH|188}}
• {{ill|Ibn Zabala|ar|ابن زبالة}} d. {{AH|199}}
• Hisham ibn al-Kalbi {{AH|110}} - {{AH|204}}
• Al-Waqidi {{AH|130}} - {{AH|207}} Kitab al-Tarikh wa'l-Maghazi (Book of History and Battles).
• Al-Haytham ibn 'Adi d. {{AH|207}}
• Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani {{AH|126}} - {{AH|211}}
• {{ill|Nasr ibn Muzahim|ar|نصر بن مزاحم}} {{AH|130}} - {{AH|212}}
• Al-Asmaʿi {{AH|123}} - {{AH|216}}
• Ibn Hisham d. {{AH|218}}
• {{ill|Ibn Bakkar|ar|ابن بكار}} {{AH|129}} - {{AH|222}}
• Ibn Sa'd {{AH|168}} - {{AH|230}}

• {{ill|Muhammad bin Aa'idh Al-Qurayshi|ar|محمد بن عائذ القرشي}} {{AH|150}} - {{AH|233}}
• {{ill|Muṣʻab ibn ʻAbd Allāh Zubayrī|ar|مصعب بن عبد الله الزبيري}} {{AH|156}} - {{AH|236}}
• Wathima ibn Musa d. {{AH|237}}
• Khalifa ibn Khayyat {{AH|160}} - {{AH|240}}
• Ali ibn al-Madini {{AH|161}} - {{AH|234}}
• {{ill|Al-Abbas bin Hisham Al-Kalbi|ar|العباس بن هشام الكلبي}} {{AH|165}} - {{AH|240}}
• Muhammad ibn Habib al-Baghdadi d. {{AH|245}}
• Al-Jahiz {{AH|159}} - {{AH|255}}
• Ibn Habib {{AH|180}} - {{AH|238}}

• Muhammad al-Bukhari {{AH|194}} - {{AH|256}} Sahih al-Bukhari, The Great History
• Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār {{AH|172}} - {{AH|256}}
• Ibn Abd al-Hakam {{AH|187}} - {{AH|257}} Futuh Misr wa'l-Maghrib wa akhbaruha

• Omar ibn Shabba d. {{AH|262}}
• Ibn Majah {{AH|209}} - {{AH|273}}
• Abu Dawud {{AH|202}} - {{AH|275}}
• Ibn Qutaybah {{AH|213}} - {{AH|276}} Uyun al-akhbar, Al-Imama wa al-Siyasa(Robinson hasn't mentioned his name.)
• Al-Baladhuri {{AH|204}} - {{AH|279}}
• Al-Dinawari {{AH|212}} - {{AH|282}} Akbar al-tiwal
• Ibrahim Al-Thaqafi d. {{AH|283}}
• al-Tirmidhi {{AH|209}} - {{AH|279}}
• Al-Fakihi {{AH|215}} - {{AH|279}}
• Umara ibn Wathima d. {{AH|289}}
• Aslam ibn Sahl ibn Aslam d. {{AH|292}}
• Ya'qubi d. {{AH|284}} or {{AH|298}} Tarikh al-Yaqubi
• Al-Nasa'i {{AH|214}} - {{AH|303}}
• Ibn Fadlan d. after {{AH|309}}
• Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari {{AH|224}} - {{AH|310}} History of the Prophets and Kings
• Ibn A'tham d. {{AH|314}} al-Futuh
• Ibn Wahshiyya d. {{AH|318}}
• Abu Ahmed Al-Jaloudi d. {{AH|332}}
• Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi {{AH|251}} - {{AH|333}}

• Sinan ibn Thabit d. {{AH|331}}
• Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī {{AH|280}} - {{AH|336}}
• Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli d. {{AH|336}}
• {{ill|Abu Saeed ibn al-A'rabi|ar|أبو سعيد بن الأعرابي}} {{AH|245}} - {{AH|340}}
• Ali al-Masudi {{AH|283}} - {{AH|346}} The Meadows of Gold
• Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Kindi {{AH|283}} - {{AH|350}}
• {{ill|Ibn Shaban al-Amari|ar|ابن شعبان}} {{AH|270}} - {{AH|355}}
• Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani {{AH|284}} - {{AH|356}}

• {{ill|Al-Mutahhar ibn Tahir al-Maqdisi|ar|المطهر بن طاهر المقدسي}} d. {{AH|355}}
• Qadi al-Nu'man - (Fatimid) d. {{AH|363}}
• Ibn al-Qūṭiyya (Anadalusian) d. {{AH|367}} Ta'rikh iftitah al-Andalus
• {{ill|Abu Suleiman Al-Rubii|ar|أبو سليمان الربعي}} d. {{AH|379}}
• al-Saghani d. {{AH|379}} one of the earliest historians of science
• Al-Muqaddasi {{AH|336}} - {{AH|380}} - Aḥsan al-taqāsīm has a detailed description on his birthplace in Palestine and the Levant
• Ibn an-Nadīm {{AH|320}} - {{AH|385}}
• al-Daraqutni {{AH|306}} - {{AH|385}}

• Ibn Faradi (Anadalusian) {{AH|351}} - {{AH|403}}
• al-Musabbihi (Fatimid) {{AH|366}} - {{AH|420}}, Akhbar MisrBianquis, "Al-Musabbihi", Encyclopaedia of Islam, Leiden: Brill, 1960-2004.
• Ibn Miskawayh {{AH|320}} - {{AH|421}}
• {{ill|Muhammad ibn Abd al-Jabbar al-Utbi|ar|محمد بن عبد الجبار العتبي}} d. {{AH|427}}
• al-Bīrūnī {{AH|362}} - {{AH|440}} Kitab fi Tahqiq ma li'l-Hind (Researches on India), The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries
• Hilal ibn al-Muhassin al-Sabi' {{AH|359}} - {{AH|448}}
• al-Khatib al-Baghdadi {{AH|392}} - {{AH|463}} Tarikh Baghdad (a biographical dictionary of major Baghdadi figures)
• Abolfazl Beyhaqi d. {{AH|470}} 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

• Ẓāhir al-Dīn Nīshāpūrī around 1175
• 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/CE 1203–68) full name Abū Shāma Shihāb al-Dīn al-Maqdisī{{EI3|last=Antrim |first=Zayde G. |doi=10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_22839 |title=Abū Shāma Shihāb al-Dīn al-Maqdisī |accessdate= 23 April 2018}}
• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• Aşıkpaşazade (d. 1481)
• Tursun Beg (d. after 1488)"Tursun Beg." Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill, 1960-2004.
• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Mohammad Iqbal (b. 1877)
• Joel Hayward (b. 1964)

• Ulama
• Lists of Islamic scholars
• List of historians

{{Reflist}}

• Robinson, Chase F. (2003), Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|0-521-62936-5}}. XIV and XV ("Chase F. Robinson" in "Islamic Historiography" has mentioned the chronological list of Islamic historians.)
• Babinger, Franz. Geschichtsschreiber der Osmanen. Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1927.
• Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill, 1960-2004.

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