Tarikh-e Bal'ami (Bal'ami's History)

One of the oldest surviving prose works in the Persian language, written in the tenth century by Abu Ali Bal'ami, a vizier of the Samanid court. It is a Persian adaptation of Tabari's great Arabic chronicle and narrates history from the creation and the prophets through the early Islamic period. In classical Persian, for readers of history and early Persian prose.

Author: Abu Ali Bal'ami

Original title: تاریخ بلعمی

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