Editing Hagiography (section)

== Islam ==
Hagiography in Islam began in the [[Arabic language]] with biographical writing about the Prophet [[Muhammad]] in the 8th century CE, a tradition known as ''[[sīra]]''. From about the 10th century CE, a genre generally known as ''[[manāqib]]'' also emerged, which comprised biographies of the [[imam]]s (''madhāhib'') who founded different schools of Islamic thought (''[[madhhab]]'') about ''[[Sharia|shariʿa]]'', and of [[List of Sufi saints|Ṣūfī saints]]. Over time, hagiography about Ṣūfīs and their miracles came to predominate in the genre of ''manāqib''.<ref name=":0">Ch. Pellat, "Manāḳib", in ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'', ed. by P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, and W.P. Heinrichs, 2nd edn, 12 vols (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2005), {{doi|10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0660}}.</ref>

Likewise influenced by early Islamic [[Hadith studies|research into hadiths]] and other biographical information about the Prophet, Persian scholars began writing [[Persian hagiography]], again mainly of Sūfī saints, in the eleventh century CE.

The Islamicisation of the Turkish regions led to the development of [[Turkish language|Turkish]] biographies of saints, beginning in the 13th century CE and gaining pace around the 16th. Production remained dynamic and kept pace with scholarly developments in historical biographical writing until 1925, when [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]] (d. 1938) placed an interdiction on Ṣūfī brotherhoods. As Turkey relaxed legal restrictions on Islamic practice in the 1950s and the 1980s, Ṣūfīs returned to publishing hagiography, a trend which continues in the 21st century.<ref name=":02">Alexandre Papas, "Hagiography, Persian and Turkish", in ''Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three'', ed. by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Everett Rowson (Leiden: Brill, 2007–), {{doi|10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_23914}}.</ref>