Ḩāres̄ābād

Haresabad is a village of the Bayhaq district near Sabzevar, remembered as the birthplace of the historian Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi. Born in the late tenth century, he studied at Nishapur and entered the Ghaznavid chancery, where he served under the secretary Abu Nasr Mushkan. His history of the Ghaznavid rulers combined knowledge of court affairs with a vivid Persian prose style, preserving accounts of political life for later generations.