ISLAMIC HISTORY SELECT PRIMARY AND ASSOCIATED SECONDARY SOURCES

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Abu `Īsā' ibn al-Munajjim (fl. late 8th cent CE?).

  • al-Bayan `an ta'rikh sini zaman `ala sabil al-hujja wa'l-Burhan (Exposition of the Chronology of the years of the duration of the World).

 Ibn Ishāq, Muhammad [`Abd al-Malik ibn Hishām] (d. 150/767 )

  • Sıra = Sīrat rasūl Allah (recension of 'Abd al-Malik b. Hishām), ed. F. Wüstenfeld, (Das Leben Muhammed's). 2 vols. Göttingen: Dieterichsche Universitats-Buchhandlung,1858-60; repr. Beirut n.d.;
  • ed. Mustafā al-Saqqa et al., 4 vols, in 2, 2nd ed., Cairo 1955
  • Ibn Ishaq-Guillaume The life of Muhammad. A translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sırat rasul Allah, trans. A. Guillaume, Oxford 1955; repr. Karachi 1967
  • Trans. Alfred Guillaume as The Life of Muhammad: a Translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah. Oxford: OUP, 1955.              

 Ibn Ḥishām [ Wahb b. Munabbih]  ( add/add)

  •  K. Tijan = Kitāb al-Tijān fī mulūk Ḥimyar. Markez al-Darāsāt..: Ṣan`a’, 1347/1928.

 

Ibn Sa'd, Muhammad (d. Baghdad 230/845).

  • Tabaqat =  al-Tabaqat al-kubra, éd. H. Sachau et al., g vols., Leiden 1905-40.

  • Ed. ihsan 'Abbas, 9 vols., Beirut 1957-8.
  • Tabaqat = al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā. Vol. 1 Beirut:Dār Ṣādir, n.d

Ibn `Abd al-Ḥakam (d. 257/871)

  • Futuh Misr = The History of the Conquest of Egypt, North Africa and Spain. Futūḥ Miṣr (ed. Torrey, Yale Univ. Press: New Haven [=Yale Oriental Series --Researches III], 1922).

 

Ibn Qutayba, 'Abd Allah ibn Muslim (d.276/889)

  •  Ma`arif = K. al-ma'arif . Ed. Thawat `Ukāsha. Cairo: Dar al-ma'arif, 1969. • `Uyun = 'Uyūn al-akhbar. Beirut, 1406/1986. *

  • Kitab al-Ma`arif (Book of Knowledge").

Abu Zur`ah al-Dimaqshi = `Abd al-Rahman ibn `Amr ibn `Abd-Allah ibn Safwan ibn `Amr al-Nasri Abu Zur`ah al-Dimaqshi (d. c. 281/895).

  • Tarikh ed. Khalil Mansur, 1417/1996. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyah.  390 pp.

  • Tarikh Abi Zur`ah al-Dimaqshi. ed. Khalil al-Mansur 1996. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyah.  390 pp. *

al-Ṭabarī, Abu Ja`far Muhammad b. Jarīr, (d. 310/922)

HISTORY

al-Ṭabarī, Abu Ja`far Muhammad b. Jarīr, (d. 310/922)

 

  • Ta'rīkh al-umam wa-l-mulūk. 11 vols. Ed. Muhammad Abu al-Fadl ...

  • Ta'rikh al-Rusul wa'l-mulūk, ed. M. J. de Goeje et al., 15 vols., Leiden, 1879-1901.

  • Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed ibn Djarir al-Tabari. 16 vols. Ed. M. J. De Goeje and M. Abu'l- Faḍl Ibrāhīm. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1879-1901.

  • ed.  ed. Muhammad Abū’l-Faḍl Ibrāhīm, 10 vols., Cairo, 1960-1969/ 1967.

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  • Beirut: Dār al-Fikr 1408 A.H./ 1985 CE. 30 vols., 

  • Tarikh = Ta'rīkh al-rusul wa’l-mulūk, 15 vols. Dār al-Fikr 1988/1408. *

  • Ta'rīkh al-Ṭabarī, Ta'rīkh al-umam wa-l-mulūk. 6 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya, 1417/1997.*

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  • Ta'rīkh al-umam wa-l-mulūk. 11 vols. Ed. Muhammad Abu al-Fadl ...

  • Ta'rikh al-Rusul wa'l-mulūk, ed. M. J. de Goeje et al., 15 vols., Leiden, 1879-1901.
  • ed.  ed. Muhammad Abū’l-Faḍl Ibrāhīm, 10 vols., Cairo, 1960-1969/ 1967.
  • Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed ibn Djarir at-Tabari. 16 vols. Edited by M. J. De Goeje and M. Abu'l  Fadl Ibrahim. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1879-1901.

  • Beirut: Dār al-Fikr 1408 A.H./ 1985 CE. 30 vols., 

  • Tarikh = Ta'rīkh al-rusul wa’l-mulūk, 15 vols. Dār al-Fikr 1988/1408. *

  • Ta'rīkh al-Ṭabarī, Ta'rīkh al-umam wa-l-mulūk. 6 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya, 1417/1997.*

    • TRANSLATIONS

  • The History of al- Ṭabarī, by various translators, general ed., E. Yarshater, 37+1 vols. Albany, N.Y: SUNY, 1985-98. *

  • Tarikh (Per. 1987) 1366/1987. Tārīkh-i nāmih-yi Ṭabarī. 3 Vols. Ed. Muḥammad Rawshan. Tehran: Nashr-i Naw. *

  • Tarikh (Per. 1995) 1374/1995 Tārīkhnāmih-i Ṭabarī. 2 Vols. Ed. Muḥammad Rawshan. Tehran: Surūsh.*

  • History tr. Rosenthal. The History of al-Tabarī, vol. 1 (General Introduction and From the Creation to the Flood), Albany. SUNY. 1989.*

  • History tr. Brinner, W. vol. 2 (Prophets and Patriarchs), Albany, SUNY, 1987.*

  • History tr. Brinner, W. vol. 3 (The Children of Israel), Albany, SUNY, 1991*

  • History tr. Perlman. M. vol. 4 (The Ancient Kingdoms), Albany, SUNY. 1987. * 

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    ARTICLES

    Shosham, Boaz,

  • Poetics of Islamic Historiography, Deconstructing Tabari's History. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004. *

    Tayob, Abdulkader L,

     

  • "Islamic Historiography: The Case of al-Tabarf's Ta'rikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk on the Companions of the Prophet," unpublished Ph.D. diss., Temple University, 1988.
  • "Tabarī on the Companions of the Prophet: Moral and Political Contours in Islamic Historical Writing," JAOS 119 (1999) : 203 10.
  • "An Analytical Survey of al-Tabarīs Exegesis of the Cultural Symbolic Construct of fitna," in G. R. Hawting and Abdul-Kader A.

    • Sharecf, eds.,

    • Approaches to the Qur'ãn. London, 1993, 157 72.*

    • Waines, David,

    •  "Abu Ja'far al-Tabari and His Sources: An Introduction to Early Iraqi Historiography," unpublished MA thesis, McGill University, 1968.

    Daniel, E.

    • I990 'Manuscripts and Editions of Bal'amī's Tarjamah-i tārīkh-i Ṭabarī.'’  JRAS:  283-321.
    • 1995 (Unpub.) 'The Samanid "Translations" of Ṭabarī.' Paper presented at the International Conference on 'The Life and Works of Muhammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī,' University of St Andrews, 30 August-2 September 1995. (Forthcoming).

     

    Bal'amī, Abū `Alī (d.c. 387/997) Trans of al-Tabari, Tarikh...

    • Tarikh = Tar’īkh, abridged translation of al-Ṭabarī's Ta'rīkh al-rusul wal-mulūk (q.v.), part I (the pre-Islamic section), ed. Muḥammad-Taqī Bahār. Tehran: Ministry of Education, 1962; *
    • Part 11 (the Islamic section), 3 Vols. Tehran: Nashr-i Naw, 1987. *
    • 1974 Tarīkh-i Bal'amī. Ed. Muḥammad Taqī Bahār. Rev. ed. Muhammad Parvin Gunabadī 2nd edn. Tehran: Zavvār. 1984. *
    • Trans. H. Zotenberg. 1984. Les prophètes et les rois de la création à David. Paris: Sindbad. 1994 *
    • Tārīkh nāmih i ṭabarī: bakhsh-i chāp-nāshudih. Ed. Muḥammad Rawshan. 3rd edn. Tehran: Nashr-i Alburz. *

    Daniel, E.

    • I990 'Manuscripts and Editions of Bal'amī's Tarjamah-i tārīkh-i Ṭabarī.'’ JRAS: 283-321.

    • 1995 (Unpub.) 'The Samanid "Translations" of Ṭabarī.' Paper presented at the International Conference on 'The Life and Works of Muhammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī,' University of St Andrews, 30 August-2 September 1995. (Forthcoming).

     

    Mas'ūdī, Abu 'Alī b. al-Husayn al-Mas'ūdī (d. 345/956 or 346). 

     

    مروج الذهب  

    • Murūj al-dhahab, ed. C. Barbier de Meynard and Pavet de Courteille, 9 vols., Paris 1861-77;
    • Ed. and trans. Ch. Pellat, Les prairies d'or, 7 vols, text and 4 vols, translation, Paris-Beirut 1962-89;
    • ed. Qasim al-Shamā'ī al-Rifā'ī, 4 vols., Beirut 1989.

    • Tanbih = K. al-tanbīh wa-l-ishraf. Ed. M.J. de Goeje. Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum, 8. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1894.

    • Muruj = K. Murūj al-dhahab wa-ma'adin al-jawhar. 4 vols. Beirut: Dar al- Andalus, 1965-66.*

    • مروج الذهب ومعادن الجوهر . Murūj al-dhahab wa Ma`dan al-Jawhar. 4 vols. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya, 1996 (1904pp.).*

    • Akhbar al-Zaman. 2nd ed. Beirut: Dar al- Andalus, 1386/1965-66. 278+1 pp.*

     

     

    Khalidi, Tarif,

    • Islamic Historiography: the Histories of al-Mas`udī. Albany: SUNY. *

    Shboul, Ahmad M.H..

    • al-Mas’ūdī and His World, A Muslim Humanist and his interest in non-Muslims. London: Ithaca Press, 1979. 366pp.  *

     

    Ya`qūbī, Aḥmad ibn Abī Ya`qūb ibn Ja`far ibn Wahb ibn Wāḍih (ADD/ADD).

    • Tarikh = al-Tarīkh, ed. M. T. Houtsma as Ibn Wadhih qui dicitur al-Ja’qubi Historiae, 2 vols. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1883; repr. 1969.
    • Tarikh al-Ya`qūbī. 2 vols. ed. `Abd al-Amīr Mihna.  Beirut: Mu`asasat al-A`lami al-Matbu`at, 1413/1993.  (459pp + 482pp.).*

     

    Ibn al-Nadīm, Muhammad ibn Ishaq ( d. ADD/ADD).

    • Fihrist = al-Fihrist. Ed. Shaykh Ibrāhīm Ramaḍān. Beirut: Dār al-Ma`rifa, 1417/1998.

    • Dodge Tr. Bayard Dodge as The Fihrist of al-Nadīm: a Tenth Century Suruey of Muslim Culture. 2 vols. New York: Columbia Universisity Press, 1970.

    Abū al-Rayḥān Muhammad Ibn al-al-Bīrūnī  (d. 422 /1051)

    al-Bīrūnī, Abu al-Rayhān Muhammad (d.422 /1051)

    •  al-Āthār al-bāqiyya 'an al-qur'ūn al-khāliyya. C. E. Sachau. Leipzig. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1878.
    • Trans. C.E. Sachau as The Chronology of Ancient Nations. London, 1879. Rep. Frankfurt: Minerva, 1969.
    • T-Hind = Taḥqīq mā l’l-Hind. Beirut: `Ālam al-Kutub. 2nd ed. 1404/1983.
    • India =  AlBeruni’s India. C.E. Sachau 2 vols. in 1 Rep. Delhi: Low Price Pub. [1910] 1989.