THE FOLLOWING TABLE includes texts for which titles (or at least definite subjects) are known and that can be seen as belonging, directly or indirectly, to the field of historical writing. Early works of Qur'ān commentary ( tajsīr) are included in the list, because some may have included accounts belonging to the themes Qur'ān-related narratives, nubūwa, and/or umma, and possibly to others. On the other hand, most works of purely theological concern-for example, those on Qur'ān reading-or on poetry are not included. Similarly, many works entitled simply ḥadīth are omitted, even though many early ones may already have included akhbār that could be considered historical. The list includes for each work the name of the author, the death-date of the author, title of work, historiographical theme(s) to which the work relates, and source of information. The list includes only authors with death-dates up to the year 200 AH; this thus excludes most of the main akhbārīs, such as Hishām ibn Muḥammad al-Kalbī (d. AH 204), Abū Ḥudhayfa (d. 206), al-Haytham ibn 'Adī (d. 206) , al-Wāqidī (d. 207), Abu 'Ubayda (d. 210), al-Madāinī (d. 235), etc. By the time these akhbārfs wrote, all of the themes identified below were well developed; for example, for Ibn al-Kalbī alone the Fihrist lists over one hundred

titles of monographs on a wide variety of themes.