Mufaddal ibn Sa'd al-Mafarrukhi, commonly known as Mafarrukhi, was an

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historian who was the author of the

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''Kitab Mahasin Isfahan'' (Book of the Beauties of Isfahan), a local history of his hometown Isfahan. Modern historians generally agree that Maffarrukhi composed his work during the reign of the Seljuk sultan

Malik-Shah I Jalāl al-Dawla Mu'izz al-Dunyā Wa'l-Din Abu'l-Fatḥ ibn Alp Arslān (8 August 1055 – 19 November 1092, full name: fa, ), better known by his regnal name of Malik-Shah I ( fa, ), was the third sultan of the Great Seljuk Empire from 1072 to ...

(). Little is known about Mafarrukhi's life. He belonged to one of Isfahan's leading families, and was (or insisted to be) descended from the aristocracy of the pre-Islamic Sasanian Empire (224–651). Mafarrukhi's family probably owned land around Isfahan. Mafarrukhi's paternal grandfather was Abu Muslim Tahir ibn Muhammad, a poet in the entourage of the prominent

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king

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(). Mafarrukhi's maternal grandfather was Abu Hasan al-Anda'ani, who was connected to the governor of Isfahan.

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* * * * * {{cite book , title = The Great Seljuk Empire , year = 2015 , publisher = Edinburgh University Press , last = Peacock , first = A. C. S. , author-link = A. C. S. Peacock , pages = 1–378 , isbn = 978-0-7486-3826-0 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hAndCQAAQBAJ&q=The+Great+Seljuk+Empire 11th-century Iranian historians Writers from Isfahan Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Scholars from the Seljuk Empire