Biographical dictionaries

encyclopedia/biographical dictionary

Arabic-language historical chronicle by Persian historian Tabari

directory of Europe's royalty and higher nobility, also including the major governmental, military and diplomatic corps, as well as statistical data by country

arabic encyclopedic collection of poems and songs

type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information

The '''' () (The Book Catalogue'') is a compendium of the knowledge and literature of tenth-century Islam compiled by Ibn al-Nadim (d. 998). It references approx. 10,000 books and 3,500 to 3,700 authors, despite being incomplete. A crucial source of medieval Arabic-Islamic literature, it preserves the names of authors, books and accounts otherwise entirely lost. is evidence of Ibn al-Nadim's thirst for knowledge among the sophisticated milieu of Baghdad's intellectual elite. As a record of civilisation transmitted through Muslim culture to the Western world, it provides unique classical materi

prosopographical work on the Later Roman Empire by John Morris, John Robert Martindale and Arnold Hugh Martin Jones

The Lives of Noble Figures; 23 volumes, a unique 14 CE's encyclopedia of biographical history book by Al-Dhahabi

reference publication, generally containing concise biographical information on a particular group of people

biographical dictionary of Italian people

online biographical dictionary

guide to prominent individuals in China compiled in Japan by the Asahi Shimbun during the Second Sino-Japanese War

annually published UK list

book by Al-Bukhari

44 volume biographical dictionary of Belgium, starting with volume 1 published in 1866 and finished in 1986

Book in the biography of the people

Swedish-language biographical encyclopaedia for Finland

biographical dictionary of Chinese people during the Qing dynasty