Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi

Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi

Abūʾl-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī (Persian: ابوالفضل محمد بن حسین بیهقی; died September 21, 1077), better known as Abu'l-Faḍl Bayhaqi (ابوالفضل بیهقی; also spelled Beyhaqi), was a secretary, historian and author. Educated in the major cultural center of Nishapur, and employed at the court of the famous Ghaznavid Sultan Mahmud, Bayhaqi was a highly cultured man, whose magnum opus—the Tarikh-i Bayhaqi, is seen as the most reliable source of valid information about the Ghaznavid era, which was written in an exquisite and vivid Persian prose that would become an ideal model for several eras. Bayhaqi is praised by modern scholars for his frankness, precision, and elegant style in his book, which he had spent 22 years to write, finishing it in thirty volumes, of which however only five volumes and half of the sixth exist today. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi has received more than 49,940 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi is the 3,251st most popular writer (up from 3,364th in 2019), the 273rd most popular biography from Iran (down from 262nd in 2019) and the 38th most popular Iranian Writer.