Study of scientific and educational status of Balkh city based on FazեւƗҴil-i Balkh by Shaykh al-Islam Abu Bakr Davood Vaez Balkhi

Quarter Balkh is one of the most important cities of Khorasan region, which is very important in the medieval scientific and educational discussion. In order to examine the scientific and cultural status of the city, various sources including references, political sources, encyclopedias, and poems, are significant. Another source for understanding this topic is the local history of the period. FazեւƗҴil-i Balkh book, by Balkh preacher, is one of the reliable books that help to understand the scientific-educational status of Balkh. This paper aims to analyze the scientific and educational status of Balkh city in the given centuries regarding FazեւƗҴil-i Balkh book and to answer the questions of what educational institutions and disciplines are discussed in this book and to which cities were scientific trips made according to this text? This is a descriptive-analytical study based on library resources. Of the seventy people mentioned in this book in the 2nd to 6th centuries, it was found that the scholarly field of hadith, fiqh and Quranic sciences were the most center of attention, and scientific trips to Iraq and the cities of Baghdad and Basra and more books which were written in the fields of fiqh, Philosophy, wisdom and the Quranic sciences had been the most books.