Bal'ami

Who is Bal'ami?

Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad, also called Amīrak Balʿamī and Balʿamī-i Kūček, son of Abu'l-Fadl al-Bal'ami; both served as viziers of the Samanids. Mostly known as Bal'ami, was a Persian historian, writer, and vizier to the Samanids. He was born in Lashjerd in the district of Marv, a city in modern Turkmenistan. His most famous work is Tarikh-e Bal'ami, which is a translation of Tabari's History of the Prophets and Kings. It contains supplementary material, some of which is found nowhere else. Having been written in 963, it is the oldest New Persian prose work after the preface of the Shah-nama by Abu Mansur