A medieval local history of Balkh

Faḍāʾil-i Balkh or the Merits of Balkh:

Annotated translation with commentary and introduction of the oldest surviving history of Balkh in Afghanistan
 

by Arezou Azad; Edmund Herzig; Ali Mir-Ansari

 

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See here for BBC Persian coverage of the book.