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
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