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Communists; Lebanon; Biography

Arab, women; Egypt; biography

ʿĀzār, Manṣūr; intellectuals; Lebanon; biography

Janzūrī, Kamāl; prime ministers; Egypt; biography

Women; Islamic civilization; Qayrawān (Tunisia); biography

Carpentry, Arabic; carpenters; Egypt; history; biography

Dakrūb, Muḥammad; 1929-2013; communists; Lebanon; biography

ʿĀnī, Ṭāhir Tawfīq; Iraq; officials and employees; biography

Presidents; Egypt; Tunisia; biography; politics and government; history

Ṭāhā, Maḥmūd Muḥammad; Sudan; politics and government biography

Jahmī, Khadījah; radio announcers; radio broadcasting; Libya; biography

Nākūʿ, Sālim ibn ʿAbd al-Nabī; Libya; National liberation movements; biography

In the Islamic middle ages, urban histories were for the most part not the kind of chronicle that one might think, covering the political, economic, or cultural history of a particular city over a certain time. Instead, they were a kind of ʿwhoʾs whoʾ directory of names of a cityʾs prominent inhabitants, mostly from as far back as information would be available until the lifetime of the author. In the case of the city of Nishapur, which saw its greatest blossoming between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, there is al-Ḥākim al-Nīshāpūrīʾs (d. 405/1014) foundational Taʾrīkh Nīsābūr , an Arabic work—now lost—on which many later biographers relied. Al-Ḥākimʾs work was continued by ʿAbd al-Ghāfir al-Fārisī (d. 529/1134) in his al-Siyāq li-Taʾrīkh Nīsābūr . The text published here is described as a partial summary of al-Fārisīʾs work, although Frye in his The Histories of Nishapur (p. 10) still regarded it as a fragment of the Siyāq itself

Memoirs of an Egyptian intellectual

Displays the biography of one the most prominent figures of journalism in Morocco since the independence in 1956. It also presents many outstanding events that characterized the history of Morocco in the early decade after independence