Title Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqī Religion Islam Notable work(s) Tārīkh-e Mas'oudī Main interest History | Ethnicity Persian Jurisprudence Shafi`i Died 1077 Regions Greater Khorasan, Ghazni | |
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Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqī (Persian: ابوالفضل بیهقی, Ibn Zeyd ibn Muhammad Abul-Fazl Mohammad ibn Hossein ibn Soleyman Ayyoub Ansari Evesi Khazimi Bayhaqī Shafe'i), was a Persian historian and author.
He wrote the famous work of Persian literature Tarikh-e Mas'oudi ("Masoudian History", also known as "Tārīkh-e Bayhaqī").
Bayhaqi was born in the village Haares-Abad of Bayhaq in Khorasan Province near Sabzevar. He studied various sciences in Neishabur city, and then he was employed as a clerk in the secretariat of Sultan Mahmud. Abolfazl could show his efficiency there.
In 1039 his master and chief Abu Nasr Mushkan passed and a few years later King Abd al-Rashid elected him as the chief of the Royal Secretariat.
After the retirement in 1058, Bayhaqi started the editing of his daily notes and historical data and published them in a book, named it "Tarikh-e Baihaqi".
His book is one of the most creditable sources about the Ghaznavid Empire, and his fluent prose style has made the book considerable in Persian literature too.
In his book he has a famous chapter about the execution of Hasanak the Vizier.