The bright light of the ninth century people

The brilliant light of the ninth century people is a book in history written by Shams al -Din al -Sakhawi. It is the widest source in Islamic medieval history. The number of translations has (11699) translations. It was translated in it for scholars, judges, narrators, writers, poets, caliphs, kings, and ministers, from the people of Egypt, the Levant, the Hijaz, the Yemen, the Romans, and India, east and west, men and women, who died in this era, or delayed to the tenth century: and narrated - in the translation of each one His preserves, elders, works, conditions, birth and death, and the eleventh part of it was devoted to the nickname, and the twelfth for women. His contemporaries have confronted his criticism, and the insult to him, including Jalal al -Din al -Suyuti, who wrote in his criticism a book called by Al -Kawi in the history of Al -Sakhawi and this does not reduce it. Part of one index for translations