Encyclopedia of biography




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Mother Theresa. Princess Diana. Tom Clancy. Johnnie Cochran. Betty Shabazz. These are just a few of the people you'll find biographical information on in the Encyclopedia of World Biography.

Originally published in by McGraw Hill, this vol. authoritative set is entirely revised and updated - the first complete revision in 25 years. Here's what you'll find in this admired biographical reference source:
  • 17 volumes with almost 7, entries - 40 percent more than the set
  • Approximately new entries - with more multicultural coverage
  • Thousands of high-resolution photographs - designed to produce clearer photocopies
  • Updated entries and bibliographies - includes new developments since the last edition as well as newly discovered facts and interpretations of historical figures
  • Easy-to-use page format
  • Multi-access, consolidated index, and much more.
This set includes not only the 17 vols. in the 2nd Edition, but annual supplement volumes - all in one convenient collection. All of the photographs from the 2nd Edition and supplement volumes are included.
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    • 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 ). "Islamic Biographical Dictionaries: A Preliminary Assessment". The Muslim World.
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    • Encyclopedia of American Biography

    Reference on notable figures first published in

    The Encyclopedia of American Biography, is a biographical encyclopedia, edited by John A. Garraty (ed.) and Jerome L. Sternstein (assoc. ed.) This 1,page encyclopedia, published by Harper & Row in , "is more than a storehouse of information. It is also a compendium of informed opinion intended to aid readers who want to know the whys, not merely the whats, about the significant figures of our history." The summary of each life, which sticks to the facts, is followed by brief article "attempting to explain why the individual is notable and to provide some sense of what he or she was like as a human being." The extensive Introduction explains the rationale and process behind the creation of the book, including the way the essayists were chosen and the way the editors handled those essays. The entire text is available for free at the Internet Archive.

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