EXAMPLES OF HISTORIOGRAPHY

EXAMPLES OF HISTORIOGRAPHY

Period	Authors	Titles of Books	Discription	Streams
A. Classical	Ibn Jarir al-Tabari (w 923)	Akhbar al-Rasul wa al-Mulk	History of prophets & governments of four caliphs, Umayyads and Abbasids.	Political History (narative)
	Abu Hayan Ali al-Mas’udi (w 956)	Muruj al-Dhahab wa Ma’adin al-Jawhar	Religious and Social tradition, art, science, philosophy, literature	Total History (new history)
	Ibn Hisyam, Ibn Ishaq, al-Waqidi	Sirah Ibn Hisyam, Al-Sirah & al-Maghazi	History of Muhammad based on poems, festivals, etc	Social History (new history)
	Ibn Khaldun	Muqaddimah, Kitab al-Ibar	Factors of rise and fall of states, civilization & culture; philosophical elements of history.	Social History (new history)
B. Modern	Philip K. Hitti	History of the Arabs	Islamic history from the formative period of the Arab’s culture to the Ottoman empires in Turk	Political History (narative)
	E. Bosworth	Islamic Dynasties	Rise and fall of Islamic dynasties	Political History (narative)
	Marshal Hodgson	The Venture of Islam	The dynamic of Islam: social, culture, intellectual and politics.	Social History (new history)
	Ira M. Lapidus	A History of Islamic Societies	The dynamic of Islam.	Social History (new history)
	Ahmad Amin	Fajr Islam, Zuhr Islam & Dhuha al-Islam	Islam: its early history and roles in spreading civilization	Intellectual History (new history)
	Husain Haikal	Hayatu Muhammad	History of Muhammad the Prophet	Biography (narative)
	Badri Yatim	Sejarah Peradaban Islam	Islamic history (cronological) since Muhammad	Political cronology (new history)
	Hamka	Sej Umat Islam, Sej Daulah Umayah & Abbasyiah	Narative story of ummah in classical period	Political History, no analysis found (narative)
	Azyumardi Azra	Jaringan Ulama	Illustrates networks of middle eastern and Malay-Indonesian Ulama in the 17th & 18th centuries and its impacts to the Islamic intellectual tradition	Total History, Intellectual History (new history)
	Fuad Jabali	The Companions of the Prophet: a Study of Geographical Distribution & Political Alignments	Examines how political groupings or alignments among the companions happened.	Social & Intellectual History (new history)

Some Recommended Books

1. Abdullah, Taufik and Abdurrahman Surjomihardjo. Ilmu Sejarah & Historiografi: Arah dan Perspektif (Jakarta: Gramedia, 1985).
2. -------. Nasionalisme & Sejarah (Bandung: Satya Historika, 2001).
3. Bedarida, Francois. The Social Responsibilityof the Historian (Providence, Oxford, 1994).
4. Braudel, Fernand. On History (Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1980).
5. Burk, Peter, ed. New Perspectives on Historical Writing (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995).
6. Febvre, Lucien. A New History (New York: Harper, 1973).
7. Fukuyama, Francis, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: The Free Press, 1992).
8. Hakim, Sudarnoto Abdul, ed. Islam dan Konstruksi Ilmu Peradaban dan Humaniora (Jakarta: UIN Jakarta Press, 2003).
9. Hamerow, Theodorose S.Reflections on History and Historian (Madison: The university of Wisconsin Press, 1987).
10. Humphreys, R. Stephen. Islamic History a Framework for Inquiry (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991).
11. Jabali, Fuad. “The Companions of the Prophet a Study of Geographical Distribution and Political Allignments” (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003).
12. Kartodirdjo, Sartono. Pendekatan Ilmu Sosial Dalam Metodologi Sejarah (Jakarta: Gramedia, 1993).
13. -------. Indonesian Historiography (Jakarta: Penerbit Kanisius, 2001).
14. -------.Pemikiran dan Perkembangan Historiografi Indonesia: Suatu Alternatif (Jakarta: Gramedia, 1982).
15. Kuntowijoyo. Metodologi Sejarah (Yogyakarta: Tiara Wacana, 1994).
16. Lloyd, Cristopher. The Structures of History (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1993).
17. -------.Explanation in Social history (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986).
18. Saefuddin, Didin. “Penulisan Sejarah Islam: Dari Zaman Klasik Hingga Modern,” al-Turats, Vol. 7 No. 12 (Juli 2001): 13-20.
19. Stern, Fritz. The Varieties of History (New York: Vintage Books, 1973).
20. Tilly, Charles. As Sociology Meets History (Orlando, Florida: Academic Press, 1981).
21. Yatim, Badri. Historiography Islam (Jakarta: Logos, 1997).
22. -------.”Metodologi dan Pendekatan Kajian Sejarah Islam” al-Turats, Vol. 7, No. 12 (Juli 2001): 1-12.