Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Abolfazl Beyhaghi (995 – 1077): Iranian historian and author. Complete name: Ab-ol-Fazl Mohammad Ibn Hossein Beyhaghi. He wrote Tarikh-e Mas'oudi (Masoudian History) (other name: Tarikh-e Beyhaghi.) Beyhaghi was born in the village Haares-Abad of Beyhagh in Khorasan Province. He studied various sciences in Neishabur city, and then he was employed as a clerk in the Secretariat of King Mahmood Ghaznavi. Abolfazl could show his efficiency there. In 1039 his master and chief Bu-Nasr Moshkan passed and a few years later King Abd-ol-Rashid elected him as the chief of the Royal Secretariat. After the retirement in 1058, Beyhaghi started the editing of his daily notes and historical data and published them in a book, named it "Tarikh-e Mas'oudi". His book is one the most creditable sources about Gaznavid Dynasty, and his fluent prose style has made the book considerable in Persian literature too. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.