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Buʾl-Faẓl-i Bayhaqī
Muslim writer
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history of the Ghaznavids
- In Islamic world: The Ghaznavids
Abū al-Faḍl Bayhaqī (995–1077) worked in the Ghaznavid chancery and wrote a remarkable history of the Ghaznavids, the first major prose work in New Persian. He exhibited the broad learning of even a relatively minor figure at court; in his history he combined the effective…
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