Ma‘alim al-‘Ulama’ of Ibn Shahr Ashub Mazandarani (488-588 AH)...

Ma‘alim al-‘Ulama’ of Ibn Shahr Ashub Mazandarani (488-588 AH); and Rijal Ibn Dawud of Taqi ad-Din Hasan ibn ‘Ali ibn Dawud al-Hilli (647-707 AH). Of course, the science of rijal has acquired greater perfection among the Shi‘ah and has been divided into various branches.

Some books on rijal such as Asad al-Ghabah , Fihrist Shaykh , Rijal an-Najashi , and Ma‘alim al-‘Ulama’ have been written in (Arabic) alphabetical order while some others such as Rijal Shaykh and Rijal al-Burqa have been arranged according to the classes of the of the Prophet (S) and the Imams ( ‘a ). There are other types of rijal books in which the people are surveyed according to various classifications, and the most important of them is the Tabaqat of Ibn Sa‘d.

Books on Geography Some of the geography books are travelogues most of which have been written after the third century hijri . Since in this book the history of Shi‘ism has been examined in the first three centuries hijri , a number of them have not been used so much, but other…