Manaqib

Manāqib (Arabic مَناقِب, also transliterated manāḳib; singular مَنْقَبَ, manqaba/manḳaba) is a genre in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian literature, broadly encompassing "biographical works of a laudatory nature", "in which the merits, virtues and remarkable deeds of the individual concerned are given prominence" and particularly hagiographies (biographies of holy people). The principal goal of such works "is to offer to the reader a moral portrait and information on the noble actions of the individuals who constitute their subject or on the superior merits of a certain group".^[1] Such texts are valuable sources for the socio-political and religious history of early and medieval Islam.^[2]^[3]

^ Ch. Pellat, “Manāḳib”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, ed. by P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, and W.P. Heinrichs, 2nd edn, 12 vols (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2005), doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0660.
^ Asma Afsaruddin, 'In Praise of the Caliphs: Re-Creating History from the Manaqib Literature', International Journal of Middle East Studies, 31 (1999), 329-50; JSTOR 176215.
^ Asma Afsaruddin, 'Excellences Literature', in ''Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia'', ed. by Josef W. Meri, 2 vols (New York: Routledge, 2006), I 244-45.

[:0-1] Ch. Pellat, “Manāḳib”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, ed. by P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, and W.P. Heinrichs, 2nd edn, 12 vols (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2005), doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0660.

[2] Asma Afsaruddin, 'In Praise of the Caliphs: Re-Creating History from the Manaqib Literature', International Journal of Middle East Studies, 31 (1999), 329-50; JSTOR 176215.

[3] Asma Afsaruddin, 'Excellences Literature', in ''Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia'', ed. by Josef W. Meri, 2 vols (New York: Routledge, 2006), I 244-45.

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