Khālid al-Kātib in the Biographical Tradition

The Transmission of Ibn Saʿd’s Biographical Dictionary Kitāb Al-ṭabaqāt Al-kabīr

This article develops the concepts and tools for the systematic study of the mechanics of survival for medieval Islamic books. These concepts and tools are then applied to studying the history of the earliest extant biographical dictionary of the Islamic tradition: Ibn Saʿd’s Ṭabaqāt. First, the book’s transmitters and their historical contexts are investigated using a large number of transmiss...

Critical Study of wonder book writing tradition in the Islamic World; A case study on Zakaria Qazvini's ʿAjāʾib al-Makhlūqāt

Wonder book writing has been of customary traditions in Islamic historiography. Wonder book writing first emerged as one type of Islamic geography and cosmology and in fact, it is the common product of natural history and geography. ʿAjāʾib Namah could be considered as unique forms of encyclopedias that are remarkable in terms of literary, cosmology, geography and natural history. In ʿAjāʾib Na...

Biographical Sketches

Some notable names in renal medicine from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Abercrombie moved from successful general practice into the Royal Public Dispensary as a consultant and was appointed physician to the King in Scotland. President of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh and a contemporary of Sir Robert Christison both ...

Biographical methods

Biographical essay.