Category
page 110th-century Persian books
Hudud al-'alam
10th century geography book written in Persian by an unknown author
Book of Arda Viraf
Zoroastrian religious text of the Sasanian era Middle Persian, that describes the dream-journey of the devout Wīrāz through the next world (influences, not fully demonstrated, transmitted through Islam, may have been exerted on Dante’s Divine Comedy)
Tarikh-i Bal'ami
upright=1.5|thumb|Folio from the Tarikhnama of Muhammad Bal'ami|Bal'ami (early 14th century copy), depicting al-Saffah (r. 750–754) as he receives pledges of allegiance in [[Kufa]]
thumb|upright=1.5|The arrow of old Wahraz kills Masruq, the King of Yemen in Persian miniature.
'''''Tarikh-i Bal'ami () or Tārīkhnāma-yi Bozorg''''' (, 'The Great Book of History') is the earliest known extant prose book in New Persian written by Muhammad Bal'ami, a vizier in Samanid service. The 10th-century text is a universal history, spanning a period beginning with the dawn of creation through to the Islamic a