Date
A.H./A.D.
 

Title¹
 

Number of
Women's Entries²
 

Percentage of
Women's Entries
 

Time Span³
 

Ibn Sa'd

230/845

s629/4250

15  

Khalifa b. Khayyat

240/854

s128/3375

4

Ibn Hibban

354/965

ss324/11,489

3

Abu Nu'aym al-Isbahani

430/1038

s28/649  

4

Ibn 'Abd al-Barr

463/1070

s399/4225  

9

Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi

463/1071

s31/7800

<1   

Ibn al-Qaysarani

507/1113

s52/2405

2

Ibn 'Asakir

571/1176

s200/13,500

2

Ibn Al-Jawzi

597/1201

SS

ss240/1033      

23   

'Attar

628/1230

1/72   

1

Ibn Khallikan

681/1282

7/826  

<1   

Al-Dhahabi

748/1347

Siyar

93/5925  

2

Al-Safadi

764/1362

Wafi

281/9283   

3

Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani

852/1449

Isaba

s1551/1,304      

13   

Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani

852/1449

Tadh

s322/3043      

11   

Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani

852/1449

Durar

198/5204    

4

8th

Al-Muhibbi

1111/1699

  0/1289   

0

11th

Al-Muradi

1236/1821

1/753   

<1   

12th

Al-Jabarti

1236/1821

0/546   

0

Mubarak

      /1886

11/285 Cairo

4

Abu al-Huda al-Sayyadi

1328/1909

5/89    

6

Al-Bitar

1337/1918

2/777   

<1   

13th

Al-Tabbakh

        1923

25/1333   

2

Man huwa fi suriya

        1951

31/1578   

2

contem.

Notes: For Bibliographic details, see the List of Biographical Collections
1. The title of the source is listed only if the author has written other works.
2. An s or ss indicates that biographies of women are placed in a separate section (s) or sections (ss).
3. Centenary and contemporary collections are indicated. All others are historical or retrospective.

Courtesy:
Ruth Roded. Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Sa'd to Who's Who
[Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1994] , p. 3