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Abu'l-Fazl Bayhaqi
Abu'l-Fazl Bayhaqi was a Persian secretary in the chancery of the Ghaznavid sultans and a historian. His multi-volume history of the dynasty, of which the part on the reign of Mas'ud I survives as the Tarikh-i Bayhaqi, describes court life, politics and personalities in vivid detail, using documents and his own observation. It is regarded as a masterpiece of early Persian prose.
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