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    That this is intended to be something more than a biographicaldictionary is evidenced by the arrangement of the entries chronologically, by each subject's year of birth, rather than alphabetically.

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    In this sense, the form of the book tends toward being both that of a biographicaldictionary and a chronicle.

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    He also published a remarkable biographicaldictionary and other works.

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    Most recently he has completed a 53-volume biographicaldictionary of the "muhaddithat", the female scholars of "hadith".

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    The archaeology of such biographical dictionaries celebrates scholarship but also exposes pedantry, populism, and commercialism.

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    Several useful and thorough bibliographies, biographical dictionaries, and discographies were initially published in an attempt to provide future scholars with valuable source information.

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    By including living persons, the reference lists also chip away at another boundary of former historical biographical dictionaries.

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    Contemporary obituaries have long influenced not only the scope, but the prose of biographical dictionaries.

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    The present study utilizes a different method, intertextuality, by putting various biographical dictionaries in dialogue with one another to discern underlying structures and presuppositions of each author.

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    She stands for thousands of women in modern and contemporary historiography, and has had several biographies in biographical dic

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    Whether a 'social', 'stylistic' or 'biographical history' of popular music, they all seem to agree on certain central phases.

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    Helpful tables collating the manuscript sources and earlier printed editions, and informative biographical notes are also provided.

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    At the second stage of text elicitation, participants were asked to write about the same biographical and expository topics they had discussed orally.

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    His cultural biographical approach is strengthened by the fact that his discussion is not limited to consideration of houses alone.

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    The concordance will work on the corpus as a whole and on any subcorpus specified by textual and biographical features.

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    However, it remains unclear whether there are typical patterns of resilience development or whether developmental pathways are marked by individual differences and specific biographical trajectories.

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    In addition, there is information on diseases and disorders, taxonomy of organisms, terminology, fungicides, biographical notes on past plant pathologists and many other relevant matters.

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    One strand of research has sought to identify relationships between biographical variables such as first language background and educational experiences with learning strategy preferences.

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    Data were thus derived from two sources, both of which were tape recorded : a group discussion and biographical interviews.

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    Perhaps the most outspoken point of criticism brought up in the commentaries is that of the lack of explanatory force of the biographical approach.

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    The collation of detailed biographica

    Biographical dictionary

    Type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information

    A biographical dictionary is a type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information. Many attempt to cover the major personalities of a country (with limitations, such as living persons only, in Who's Who, or deceased people only, in the Dictionary of National Biography). Others are specialized, in that they cover important names in a subject field, such as architecture or engineering.

    History in the Islamic civilization

    Tarif Khalidi claimed the genre of biographical dictionaries is a "unique product of Arab Muslim culture".

    The earliest extant example of the biographical dictionary dates from 9th-century Iraq, and by the 16th-century it was a firmly established and well-respected form of historical writing. They contain more social data for a large segment of the population than that found in any other pre-industrial society. The earliest biographical dictionaries initially focused on the lives of the prophets of Islam and their companions, with one of the earliest examples being The Book of The Major Classes by Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi, and then began documenting the lives of many other historical figures (from rulers to scholars) who lived in the medieval Islamic world. The largest known biographical dictionary ever produced is called History of Damascus authored by a Muslim historian Ibn Asakir.

    When it comes to the numbers of individuals, American scholar of Islam Richard Bulliet argues that "a brief look at Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur is sufficient to convince anyone that the number of individual biographies extant must run into the hundreds of thousands and most likely into the millions."

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    1. ^Khalidi, Tarif (January 1973). "Islamic Biographical Dictionaries: A Preliminary Assessment". The Muslim Wor

    What is a biographical dictionary?

    All biographical dictionaries consist of an alphabetical arrangement of surnames containing the critical dates and events associated with the named individuals included in the dictionary. Biographical dictionaries can be compiled along general lines or restricted to specific occupations, professions (Artists, Musicians etc), or some other characteristics that the contents of a given dictionary share (dictionaries of women for instance or winners of Nobel prizes). In other words, in the case of general dictionaries, the individuals included may cover all types of human occupations from artists to zoologists or, in a dictionary with a more specific application, they may be restricted to given occupations, professions, or some other shared characteristic. They may also be current (in other words restricted to the living as in “Who’s Who”) or restricted to a specific period of time (e.g. 19th or 20th century, or some other defined period) within which those included died.

    Biographical dictionaries also differ in the type of information supplied. In some cases one might only find critical dates and little professional or personal information while in others the compiler attempts to supply as much information as can be found (as is the case with the Scoop database where everything from home addresses to photographs are supplied wherever possible).

    The record of each named individual included in a biographical dictionary will vary according to the extent of the research undertaken by the compiler and the extent to which evidence of a person’s life is available. In some cases no amount of research will unearth relevant facts for the simple reason that facts and evidence have just not survived.