Abd al-Hamid ibn Ali Faqihi
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Abd al-Hamid ibn Ali Faqihi is a contemporary Saudi academic and historian associated with the Islamic University of Madinah, known for his historiographical and bibliographic research on Islamic history and the Prophetic biography (al-Sira al-Nabawiyya) .
Academic Career and Scholarship
Abd al-Hamid ibn Ali Nasir Faqihi served as a lecturer at the Islamic University of Madinah . During the period between 1408 and 1412 AH, he completed an academic thesis titled Khilafat Ali ibn Abi Talib ("The Caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Talib") under the supervision of the historian Akram Diya' al-Umari, which applied the critical methodology of hadith scholars to evaluate historical reports concerning the era of the Rashidun caliphate .
In the field of bibliographic study, he authored Juhud al-Ulama fi Tasnif al-Sira al-Nabawiyya fi al-Qarnayn al-Thamin wa al-Tasi al-Hijriyyayn ("The Efforts of Scholars in Classifying the Prophetic Biography in the Eighth and Ninth Hijri Centuries"), published by the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran in Madinah . The study employs a descriptive and analytical approach to survey, categorize, and examine works on the Prophetic biography produced during the eighth and ninth centuries AH, tracing developments in authorship methods and thematic classifications across that era .
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This bibliographic and historiographical study surveys, classifies, and analyzes works on the Sira (Prophetic biography) composed during the 8th and 9th centuries AH (14th–15th centuries CE). It documents literary output from this period, evaluating both its quantity and thematic diversity while categorizing texts by subject matter and compositional methodology.