Islamic Biography & History Writing

General  and reference

 

Ibn Isḥāq, Muhammad  [`Abd al-Malik ibn Hishām] 

· Sīrat rasul Allah, ed. Ferdinand Wustenfeld (Das Leben Muhammed's). 2 vols. Gottingen: Dieterichsche Universitats-Buchhandlung, 1858-60.

Trans. Alfred Guillaume as The Life of Muhammad:  a Translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah. Oxford:  OUP, 1955.

Newby, Gordon

  •  The Making of the Last Prophet: A Reconstruction of the Earliest Biography of Muhammad. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989.
     

Newby, G. D.

1989               The Making of the Last Prophet: a Reconstruction of the Earliest Biography of Muhammad. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. *

 Conrad, Lawrence I.  (Review)

  • `Recovering Lost Texts: Some Methodological Issues'.  The Making of the Last Prophet: A Reconstruction of the Earliest Biography of Muhammad by Gordon Darnell Newby Review in  Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 113, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1993), pp. 258-263.
     

Guillaume, Alfred,

  •  "Yûnus ibn Bukayr, and Muhammad Ibn Ishaq, New Light on the Life of Muhammad," Journal of Semitic Studies Monograph; No. 1. Manchester: 1960.
  • The Life of Muhammad: A translation of Ihn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah Oxford University Press, 1968.

Ibn Kathīr, Isma'il ibn `Umar.  ابن كثير، إسماعيل بن عمر.

  • Ṣafwat al-sīra al-nabawiyya li-Ibn Kathīr ("The Choicest of the Prophet's Biographes  by Ibn Kathir"). 3rd ed. 4 vols. Cairo:   1424/2003

  • Ṣafwat al-sīrah al-Nabawiyyah li-Ibn Kathīr.  4 vols. al-Qāhirah (Cairo): Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah, Wizārat al-Awqāf, al-Majlis al-Aʻlá lil-Shuʾūn al-Islāmīyah, Markaz al-Sīrah wa-al-Sunnah, 2000-2002. 4 v. ; 24 cm. ISBN: 9770809268 (v. 1-3) 9772051273 (v. 4) . *

  • The Life of the Prophet Muhammad vol. 1 trans. Trevor Le; Gassick,  Garnet Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: 1859641423 (Pbk).

 

 

Humphreys, R. Stephen.

  • Islamic History : A framework for inquiry. Rev. ed. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1991.  *

 

(1) SĪRA   = BIOGRAPHY OF THE PROPHET

Abu Zayd, Ν.Η.,

`Al-Sīra al-nabawiyya sira sha'biyya',  Majallat al-fiinūn al-shabiyya, 32-33 (June-December, 1991), 17-36.

Horovitz, J.

"The Earliest Biographies of the Prophet and their Authors." 4 Parts. Islamic Culture 1 (1927) 535-59; and (1928) 22-52; 164-82; and 495-526.*

"The Growth of the Mohammed Legend." Muslim World 10 (1920) 49-58.

 

Jarrar, Mäher,

Die Prophetmbiographie im islamischen Spanien. Ein Beitrag zur Uberlieferungs- und Redaktians- geschichte, Frankfurt / Bern, 1989.

"Some Lights on an Early Zaydite Manuscript", in Asiatische Studien, 47/2 (1993), 279-97.

"Arba' rasā'il Zaydiyya mubakkira", in Fī mihrab al-marifa Festschrift for Ihsän 'Abbas, ed. I. al-Sa'afei, Beirut, 1997, 267-304.

 "The Sira. Its Formative Elements and Its Transmission", in BUG Public Lecture Series, April 1993, in press.

"Sira, Mashāhid and Maghaziī  The Genesis and Development of the Biography of Muhammad", in Studies m Late Antiquity and Early Islam, vol. Ill, ed. Lawrence I. Conrad and Averti Cameron, Princeton, N.J., 1-44,

Jones, J. M. B.

"Ibn Ishāq and al-Wāqidī", BSOAS 22 (1959) 41-51.

`Al-Sīra al-Nabawiyya as a source for the Economic History of Western Arabia.' In Sources for the History of Arabia. Edited by A. R. Ansary. Riyadh University of Riyadh Press, 1957.

The Maghāzī Literature.' In Arabic Literature to the end of the Umayyad period. Edited by A. F. L. Beeston, T. M. Johnstone, R. B. Serjeant, and G. R. Smith. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1983.
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Kister, M. J.

  • "Notes on the Papyrus Account of the `Aqaba Meeting." Le Museon 76 (1963) 403-17. .*
  • "Notes on the Papyrus Text about Muhammad's Campaign against the Banû al-Nadîr." Archiv Orientalni. 32 (1964) 233-36.
  •  "On the Papyrus of Wahb b. Munabbih." BSOAS 37 (1974) 545-71.*
  • "The Expedition of Bi'r Ma`ûna." Arabic and Islamic Studies in Honour of Hamilton A. R. Gibb. Edited by George Makdisi. Leiden Brill, 1965, pp. 337-57.
  • "The Market of the Prophet." JESHO 8 (1965) 272-76.
  • "And He was Born Circumcised . . . Some Notes on Circumcision in Hadîth." Oriens. 34 (1994) 10-29.
  • "The Sons of Khadîja." JSAI 16(1995) 59-95.
  • "The Massacre of the Banû Qurayza A Re-examination of a Tradition." JSAI 8 (1986) 61-96.
  • "The Sîrah Literature." Arabic Literature to the end of the Umayyad Period. Edited by A. F. L. Beeston, T. M. Johnstone, R. B. Serjeant, and G. R. Smith. Cambridge CUP., 1983.
  • Society and Religion from Jâhiliyya to Islam. Hampshire Variorum Reprints, 1990.
  • Studies in Jâhiliyya and Early Islam. London Variorum Reprints, 1980.

Jarrar, Mäher,

  • Die Prophetmbiographie im islamischen Spanien. Ein Beitrag zur Uberlieferungs- und Redaktians- geschichte, Frankfurt /Bern, 1989.
  • "Some Lights on an Early Zaydite Manuscript", in Asiatische Studien, 47/2 (1993), 279-97.
  • "Arba' rasā'il Zaydiyya mubakkira", in Fī mihrab al-marifa Festschrift for Ihsän 'Abbas, ed. I. al-Sa'afei, Beirut, (1997) 267-304.
  • "Sira, Mashāhid and Maghaziī The Genesis and Development of the Biography of Muhammad", in Studies m Late Antiquity and Early Islam, vol. Ill, ed. Lawrence I. Conrad and Averti Cameron, Princeton, N.J., 1-44,

 

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The Rauzat-us-safa, or, Garden of purity : containing the histories of prophets, kings, and khalifs / by Muhammad bin Khavendshāh bin Mahmūd, commonly called Mirkhond ; translated from the original Persian by E. Rehatsek ; edited by F.F. Arbuthnot. Delhi : Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, 1982-

Reprint of the 1891 edition

 

Sprenger, Aloys.

  • Das Leben und die Lehre des Mohammad. 3 volumes. Berlin: Nicholai'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1861-5.

  • "Notes on Alfred von Kremer's Edition of Wakidy's Campaigns," ļournal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 25 (1856): 53-74 and 199-220.

  • "On the Origin and Progress of Writing Down Historical Facts among the Musulmans." Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengali (1856-7): 303-29 and 375-81.

  • "Ueber das Traditionswesen bei den Arabern." Zeitschrift der Deutschen al-Ṭabarī, Abu Ja`far Muhammad b. Jarīr, (d. 310/922)

HISTORY

  • 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. * 

  • 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.

    • Bal`ami, Abu `Ali trans of al-Tabari, Tarikh...

    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).

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    Ibn Khallikān.

    • Wafãyãt al-A'yãn wa-Anbã' Abnã' al-Zamãn. Ed. Ihsān 'Abbās. Beirut: Dar al-Thaqafa, 1968.*

    • trans. Ibn Khallikan ՝s Biographical Dictionary. Trans. W. M. de Slane. Oriental Translation Fund 59. 4 vols. Paris, 1843-71.

    • Reprinted Beirut, Librairie du Liban, 1970.
       

    Peters, F.E.

    • Muhammad and the Origins of Islam.  Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 1994 (334pp.).*

    Watt, W. Montgomery,

    • Free Will and Predestination in 'Early Islam. London: 1948.
    •  Muhammad at Mecca. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1953.*
    • Muhammad at Medina. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956.*
    • "The Condemnation of the Jews of Banu Qurayzah: A Study in the Sources of the Sirah." The Muslim World 42 (1952): 160-71
    • Muhammad at Mecca. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953.
    • Muhammad at Medina Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.