Abu Bakr ibn Abi Salih was a
Persian
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[''Ghaznavids'', Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Encyclopaedia Iranica, (December 15, 2001);"''The offices of vizier, treasurer, chief secretary, head of the war department, etc., were the preserves of Persians, and no Turks are recorded as ever having held them..']
/ref> statesman, who served as the ''vizier
A vizier (; ar, وزير, wazīr; fa, وزیر, vazīr), or wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the near east. The Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called ''katib'' (secretary), who was a ...
'' of the Ghaznavid
The Ghaznavid dynasty ( fa, غزنویان ''Ġaznaviyān'') was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turkic ''mamluk'' origin, ruling, at its greatest extent, large parts of Persia, Khorasan, much of Transoxiana and the northwest ...
Sultan Farrukh-Zad
Farrukh-Zad (Full name: ''Jamal ad-Dawlah Abu Shuja Farrukh-Zad''), was sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire from (1053 – 4 April 1059). His reign was considered one of benevolence, prosperity and tranquility for the Ghaznavid empire. It was free of th ...
(r. 1052-1059) from 1055 to 1059. When the latter's son Ibrahim of Ghazna
Ibrahim of Ghazna (b. 1033 – d. 1099) was sultan of the Ghaznavid empire from April 1059 until his death in 1099. Having been imprisoned at the fortress of Barghund, he was one of the Ghaznavid princes that escaped the usurper Toghrul's massacre ...
ascended the throne, Abu Bakr was appointed as chief executive of the new ruler, while Abu Sahl Khujandi Abu Sahl Khujandi was a Persian''Ghaznavids'', Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Encyclopaedia Iranica, (December 15, 2001);"''The offices of vizier, treasurer, chief secretary, head of the war department, etc., were the preserves of Persians, and no Turks ...
was appointed ''vizier''. Abu Bakr was killed by a group of Turkic generals and palace guards in the early 1060s.
References
Sources
*C. E. Bosworth "Abu Bakr ibn Abi Salih." ''Encyclopedia Iranica.'' 28 January 2016.
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1060s deaths
11th-century births
11th-century Iranian people
Ghaznavid viziers