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Abqariyyat
Abqariyyat (عبقريات, "Geniuses") is a series of biographical essays by the Egyptian writer Abbas Mahmud al-Aqqad, profiling figures he judged geniuses, chiefly Muhammad and the Rashidun caliphs.
Kavijivan
Kavijivan (કવિજીવન) is an 1887 Gujarati biography of the poet and reformer Narmad, written by his contemporary Navalram Pandya a year after Narmad's death in 1886.
Khaka
Khaka (خاکہ) in Urdu literature is a short prose portrait vividly presenting a person's appearance, habits, temperament, and character, practiced as khaka nigari. Mirza Farhatullah Baig is recognized as the genre's first regular writer.
The Genius of Christ
The Genius of Christ (ʿAbqariyyat al-Masīḥ, عبقرية المسيح) is a 1953 Arabic literary-biographical study of Jesus by the Egyptian essayist Abbas Mahmud al-Aqqad, from a Muslim perspective.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Published in 1857, The Life of Charlotte Brontë is a two-volume biography of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, shaping their public image of genius and tragedy.
The Life of Monsieur de Molière
The Life of Monsieur de Molière (Жизнь господина де Мольера) is Mikhail Bulgakov's novelized biography of the French playwright, written in 1932–1933 and first published in 1962.
The Life of Samuel Johnson
The Life of Samuel Johnson is a 1791 biography of Samuel Johnson by his Scottish friend James Boswell, widely regarded as one of the supreme achievements of biography.
Wasifu wa Siti binti Saad
Wasifu wa Siti binti Saad, a 1958 Swahili biography by Tanzanian poet Shaaban Robert, portrays taarab singer Siti binti Saad, the Queen of Taarab, and appears on Tanzanian school curricula.