books.google.com - Pre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In this 2000 study exploring the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of heirship and transmission to document the activities...https://books.google.com/books/about/Classical_Arabic_Biography.html?id=B38tRebLIrMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareClassical Arabic Biography