Abu-l fazl Al Baihaki

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Abu-l fazl Al Baihaki (b.995-d.1077) or Khwaja Abu-l Fazl bin al Hasan al Baihaki is author of Táríkhu-s Subuktigín of Abu-l fazl Al Baihaki

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Sir H. M. Elliot Edited by John Dowson[1] writes : The author himself gives his name at full length as Khwaja Abu-l Fazl bin al Hasan al Baihaki. According to his own account he was sixteen years of age in 402 Hijra (1011 A.D.) and he writes of a period as late as 451 H. (A.D. 1059), being then as he says an old man, or, as would appear, approaching 70 years of age. Khaki Shirazi states that he died in 470 (1077 A.D.)

The title of the work is sometimes read " Tarikh-i Al-i Subuktigin," and it is also known as the Tarikh-i Baihaki". Its voluminous extent has also obtained for it the name of the " Mujalladát-i Baihaki ; Volumes of Baihaki." The work would also seem to have been known under the name of the " Tarikh-i Nasiri," for a passage in the Tarikh-i Wassáf attributes a history of this name to Abu-l Fazl Baihaki. It therefore seems to be a title of this work, or at least of some of its earlier volumes devoted to the history of Nasiru-d din Subuktigin, in the same way as the later volumes containing the reign of Mas'ud are entitled Tarikh-i Masudi The portion relating to Mahmud's history was called Táju-l Futuh as is evident from Unsuri's Kasaid.

Firishta evidently refers to this author, when he speaks of the Mujalladat of Abu-l Fazl, at the beginning of Mahmud's reign.

Though the work was thus well-known to historians, a large portion of it seems to be irrecoverably lost, and the extant portions are of rare occurrence in India. After some research, Sir H. Elliot discovered a portion of the work in the possession of Ziau-d din Khan, of Loharu near Dehli, and he subsequently procured three other copies, one from Dr. Sprenger (Lucknow), another from Agra, and a third from Lahore.

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