List of Muslim historians

The 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)

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 (838CE - 923CE) - 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)

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)

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 (d. 1267)

Ibn Khallikan (d. 1282)

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 and Pakistan

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 1259)

Amir Khusro (d. 1325)

Ziauddin Barani (d. 1357)

Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Medieval Indian medical historian

Sayyid Shamsullah Qadri ((24 November 1885 – 22 October 1953)

Turkish: Ottoman Empire

Aşıkpaşazade (d. 1481)

Tursun Beg (d. after 1488)

İdris-i Bitlisi (d. 1520)

Matrakçı Nasuh (d. 1564)

Hoca Sadeddin Efendi (d. 1599)

Mustafa Ali (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. ca. 1675)

Abul Fazl Mamuri (c. 1700)

Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi (d. c. 1760)

The historians of the modern period

Mohammad Iqbal (b. 1929)