The Honest Historian: Stories from Beyhaqi
By Mehdi Rahmani
Categories: History
A thousand years ago, a court secretary in Ghazni named Abolfazl Beyhaqi wrote down what he saw — kings, viziers, plots and courage — and promised to tell only the truth. Each week, Mehdi Rahmani retells one of his stories in English, straight from the Persian original. Narrated with an AI rendering of Mehdi's own voice.
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In the spring of 1030, the great Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni dies, and his empire is left to the wrong son. His elder son Masud is far away in Isfahan, and his younger son Muhammad is already on the throne. Over six tense months, letters fly, armies change sides, and a kingmaker learns the price of…
- Folio 1: The Vizier on the Gallows
Ghazni, a thousand years ago. Sultan Mahmud is dead, his son Masud takes the throne, and the old vizier Hasanak is about to pay for one careless sentence. Beyhaqi, a young secretary at court, saw it all, and wrote it down years later in one of the most famous passages of Persian prose. A story…
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