Abu Saʿīd Gardēzī

Who was Abu Saʿīd Gardēzī?

Abu Saʿīd Abdul-Hay ibn Dhaḥḥāk ibn Maḥmūd Gardēzī, Gardīzī or Gurdēzī was from Khurasan. He was a Persian Muslim geographer and historian of the early 11th century from Gardēz. He wrote the book Zayn al-Akhbār while at the court of Abdul-Rashid, sultan of the Ghaznavid empire. Gardēzī's work, written in Persian, is an Islamic history of Central Asia and Eastern Persia and Hungary.