A Survey on the Arabic Poems of Tarikh-e Baihaq

Tarikh-e Baihaq by Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Zaid-e Baihaqi، known as Ibn-e Fundoq، is undoubtedly one of the most important and significant works on local historiography. As the title of the book indicates، it deals with the region of Baihaq (now: Sabzevar)، as well as the biographies of the renowned persons who lived there. In fact، the book is a historical geography which illuminates many ambiguous dimensions of that area. Since Ibn-e Fonduq had unique knowledge of Persian and Arabic literature، he cited many poems of famous and non-fomous poets of Beigaq in his work. Thus، this book has a lot of Arabic and Persian poems remained without any scholarly research so far. In this paper، I have dealt with the Arabic poems of the preamble and of the epilogue which demonstrated the current technical prose of the 6th century and also tried to give the meaning of the Arabic poems as well as distinguishing the poets.