Ibn Balkhi
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Ibn Balkhi (Persian: ابن بلخی) is conventional name for author of the Persian book Fārs-Nāma (فارسنامه), a local history and geography of the Fars province of Iran, written during the Saljuq period. His ancestors came from Balkh, present day Afghanistan.[1]
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- ^ Bosworth, C. Edmund (15 December 1997). "EBN AL-BALḴĪ". Encyclopædia Iranica. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ebn-al-balki. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
