BIOGRAPHY

A Dictionary of Biography is called اسماء الرجال‎ asmāʾu ʾr-rijāl ( lit . “The Names of Men”). The most celebrated of these is, amongst Muslims, that by Ibn K͟hallikān, which has always been considered a work of the highest importance for the civil and literary history of the Muḥammadan people. Ibn K͟hallikān died A.H . 681 ( A.D . 1282), but his dictionary received numerous additions from subsequent writers. It has been translated into English by Mac Guck in De Slane (Paris, 1843).