Tabaqat is a genre of Islamic biographical literature organized by the century in which its notable subjects lived, with each generation called a tabaqah. Tabaqat writings depict the past of a particular tradition of religious affiliation or scholarship, following a chronological structure that runs from an authoritative starting point down to the generation immediately preceding the work's own author.
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Notable ExampleKitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir by Ibn Sa'd 1 Defining TraitOrganized by the century in which the notable individuals lived 1 Sources
1. Tabaqat (Wikipedia)
Notable works
Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (about the companions of the Prophet and their successors) by Ibn Sa'd
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a genre of Islamic biographical literature that is organized according to the century in which the notable individuals (such as scholars, poets, etc.) lived.
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Tabaqat (Arabic: طبقات ṭabaqāt) is a genre of Islamic biographical literature that is organized according to the century in which the notable individuals (such as scholars, poets, etc.) lived.
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