Islamic historiography sustained semi-epic heroic biography long past its early period.

Evidence

Thus, we have several Arabic biographies of Saladin, most notably the work by ‘Imad al-Din, who combines Saladin’s biography with his own autobiography, and whose frequent use of rhymed prose and heroic narrative qualifies his work as semi-epic literature. As a later example, I would mention the Ottoman ac­ counts of the Hungarian wars of Suleyman the Magnificent, where the Ottoman historian Kemalpashazade again uses the same kind of literary style—part chron­ icle, part heroic poetry—to describe the achievements of his hero. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1930