Gardizi
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Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd-al-Ḥayy ibn Żaḥḥāk ibn Maḥmūd Gardīzī (Template:Langx), better known as Gardizi (Script error: No such module "Lang".), was an 11th-century PersianTemplate:Sfn historian and official, who is notable for having written the Zayn al-akhbar, one of the earliest history books written in New Persian.Template:Sfn
Little is known of Gardizi personally. He was probably from Gardiz in the region of Zamindawar, as his nisba implies.[1] His father's name was Zahhak, a name that was seemingly popular in the region.Template:Sfn Gardizi started his career as an official of the Ghaznavid monarch Mahmud of Ghazni (Template:Reign), and was an eyewitness to many of the events that occurred under the latter.Template:Sfn In his Zayn al-akbar, Gardizi took a dispassionate view of history which was fairly remarkable for its time.Template:Sfn It consisted of a history of the pre-Islamic kings of Iran, Muhammad and the Caliphs until the year 1032. Included is a history of the Arab conquest of Khorasan, which it is believed Gardizi was using al-Sallami as a source. His history concerning the Turks was written using Ibn Khordadbeh, Jayhani and Ibn al-Muqaffa' as sources.[2] He may have been a student of al-Biruni, since the Zayn al-akbar contains information concerning Indian festivals.[2]
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