''Tarikh-i Bayhaq'' ( fa, تاریخ بیهق) is a book on the history of Bayhaq, written in the

Persian language Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and ...

in the 12th century, by

Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi Zahir al-Din Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Zayd-i Bayhaqi ( fa, ظهیرالدین ابوالحسن علی بن زید بیهقی; c. 1097 – 1169) also known as Ibn Fondoq (ابن فندق) was an Iranian polymath and historian of Arab descent. He is the ...

The ''Tarikh-i Bayhaq'' contains invaluable information about the Eastern parts of Iran during Ghaznavid and Seljuk eras. Its most important aspect is that it is based on earlier sources which are no longer available. Bayhaqi stated the ''Tarik-i Bayhaq'' was written using an earlier history of Bayhaq and the ''Târîkh `Ulamâ' Ahl Naysabûr'' by

Al-Hakim Nishapuri Abu Abd-Allah Muhammad ibn Abd-Allah al-Hakim al-Nishapuri ( fa, أبو عبدالله محمد بن عبدالله الحاكم النيسابوري; 933 - 1014 CE), also known as ''Ibn al-Bayyiʿ'', was a Persian Sunni scholar and the leadin ...

. Bayhaq makes note of

Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi Abūʾl-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī ( fa, ابوالفضل محمد بن حسین بیهقی; died September 21, 1077), better known as Abu'l-Faḍl Bayhaqi (; also spelled Beyhaqi), was a Persian secretary, historian and author. Educ ...

's work, ''

Tarikh-i Bayhaqi ''Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī'' ( fa, تاریخ بیهقی, italics=yes; ) is a history book written by Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi, in Persian language, Persian, in the 11th century CE. Much of this voluminous work is lost, but its remains is the most important s ...

'', stating it consisted of 30 volumes and that he had seen partial sets in Sarakhs and Nishapur, but never complete sets. Ahmad ibn Mohammad Khwafi states the ''Tarikh-i Bayhaq'' was completed in c.1150/544 AH during the reign of

Sultan Sanjar Senjer ( fa, ; full name: ''Muizz ad-Dunya wa ad-Din Adud ad-Dawlah Abul-Harith Ahmad Sanjar ibn Malik-Shah'') (''b''. 1085 – ''d''. 8 May 1157) was the Seljuq ruler of Khorasan from 1097 until in 1118,Seljuk Empire The Great Seljuk Empire, or the Seljuk Empire was a high medieval, culturally Turco-Persian tradition, Turko-Persian, Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslim empire, founded and ruled by the Qiniq (tribe), Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks. It spanned a total are ...

, but according to Bayhaqi, the book was completed in c.1168/563 in Sheshtomad.

Yaqut al-Hamawi Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) ( ar, ياقوت الحموي الرومي) was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine Greek ancestry active during the late Abbasid period (12th-13th centuries). He is known fo ...

and

Fasih Khafi Fasih ( ar, فصح ur, فصیح is an Arabic male name meaning eloquent, literary. In Persian it means wide, ample, vast. Given name *Admiral Fasih Bokhari, Retired four-star admiral, Chief of Naval Staff (Pakistan) and ex-Chairman of the Nati ...

mentioned this book in their works.

Modern era

In 1895, Charles Pierre Henri Rieu analysed the book's contents in ''Supplement to the Catalogue of Persian MSS. in the British Museum''. Ahmad Bahmanyar published an edition of the ''Tarikh-i Bayhaq'' in 1938, which contained an introduction written by M. Kazwini.

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