shiite role in general genealogy

the shiites role in the general genealogy in which they have engaged to all arabs genealogies, all of the northern (adnanids) and southern (qahtanids), koreyshite, talibids, abbasids and omayyad, is basic. they were pioneers of this science and started to write genealogies through sources like early genealogists, interview with scholars and elders of the tribes, predecessors’ books, inscriptions and epitaph. their books, especially bin kalbi’s books have been useful for both shiite and sunni genealogists. al-hamadani’s book, al-eklil, however was been ignorant, has especial innovation in usage of early sources like inscriptions and epitaph in the genealogy field. this survey, beside analysis of shiite important and basic works in the general genealogy, attempts to explain the prominent and efficient points of these works in this field.