Thohir, Ajid2019-09-252019-09-252016-01-082012http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/232442This paper explores and attempts to map the direction and development of bio-biographical studies in Islamic historiography. The study of bio-biography in Islamic historiography occupies a strategic position, particularly in strengthening and establishing the schools in the Islamic world especially in the realm of fiqh and tasawwuf. The author argues that the relationship between a work and the cultural dynamics at any given time and space, reflecting their respective historical work that highly motivated by the complex cultural interest. The study of bio-biography is not only confined to such works as thabaqât, translation, and ansâb, but it may also be in the form of manâqib, that let someone enjoy the position as the most important intellectual and spiritual figure. The manâqib also symbolizes the schools bond that forms a psychological cohesiveness to the disciples of respective mazhab.indWith permission of the license/copyright holderbio-biographyHadithhistoriographyfikihtasawwufCultural ethicsSecularisation and ethicsReligious ethicsSpirituality and ethicsMethods of ethicsGeneral and historicalTheological ethicsJournal volume