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The Tarikh-i Bayhaqi serves as both a historical record and a literary masterpiece, influencing subsequent Persian historians and solidifying Bayhaqi’s reputation as a pioneer in historiography. His ability to blend personal observation with broader historical analysis set a new standard for Persian historical narratives.
Bayhaqi stated the Tarik-i Bayhaq was written using an earlier history of Bayhaq and the Târîkh `Ulamâ' Ahl Naysabûr by Al-Hakim Nishapuri. [1] Bayhaq makes note of Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi 's work, Tarikh-i Bayhaqi , stating it consisted of 30 volumes and that he had seen partial sets in Sarakhs and Nishapur, but never complete sets.
Bayhaqi was born in the village of Harethabad in Bayhaq in the Khorasan Province to a Persian family. [1] In his youth Bayhaqi studied in the major cultural center of Nishapur, and later in 1020/1 joined the secretariat (dīvān-e resālat) of Mahmud, where he worked as an assistant and pupil under the chief secretary Abu Nasr Mushkan for 19 years.
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Bayhaqi was born in Sabzevar, in northeastern Iran, the main city of the Bayhaq district, where his father’s estates were located. [1]In 1114, Bahyaqi along with his father visited Omar Khayyam, the famous Persian mathematician and astronomer, in Nishapur and while there Bayhaqi began his education in literature and science.
Later in his life, Fayyaz acquired more manuscripts of this work and his own edition of Bayhaqi's chronicle was posthumously published by the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Press in 1972. [3] Fayyaz was a polyglot scholar mastered in Arabic, French, English, and Russian and just started to learn Chinese shortly before his death in 1972.
Al-Bayhaqi also explained the doctrines of the followers and those after them, such as Abu Thawr, Al-Hasan al-Basri and Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, and he arranged it according to the arrangement of Al-Muzani. The old sayings of Al-Shafi’i are sometimes cited, and the book has some comments from the transcription of a hadith, the translation of a ...
Al-Bayhaqi is thus positioned among the Asha'ris of the third generation. [21] Al-Bayhaqi was a traditionalist theologian and staunch Ash'ari who textually supported the Ash'ari doctrine as can be seen in his two classical works of creed called Al-Asma' wa al-Sifat and Al-'Itiqad wa al-Hidaya ila Sabil