Ata-Malik Juvayni

Ata Malik Juvayni
عطاملک جوینی
Juvayni sitting and writing, in Tarikh-i Jahangushay, 1290 edition. His name "‛Alā al-Dīn", and title "Ṣāḥib [al-]Dīvān" (Minister of Finance) are inscribed next to him.[1] Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Suppl. Pers. 205).[2][1]
Ruler of Baghdad
In office
1259–unknown
Preceded byGuo Kan[3]
Personal details
Born1226
Juvayn, Greater Khorasan
Died1283
Mughan
Military service
AllegianceMongol Empire, Ilkhanate

Atâ-Malek Juvayni (Persian: عطاملک جوینی; 1226–1283), in full, Ala al-Din Ata-ullah (علاءالدین عطاءالله), was a Persian historian and an official of the Mongol state who wrote an account of the Mongol Empire entitled Tarikh-i Jahangushay ("History of the World Conqueror").[4]

  1. ^ a b "Consultation Supplément Persan 205". archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr.
  2. ^ Jaber, Shady (2021). "The Paintings of al-Āthār al-Bāqiya of al-Bīrūnī: A Turning Point in Islamic Visual Representation" (PDF). Lebanese American University: Figure 5.
  3. ^ Colin A. Ronan (1995). The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 5 of The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: An Abridgement of Joseph Needham's Original Text (illustrated ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 250. ISBN 0-521-46773-X. Retrieved 2011-11-28. Moreover, many Chinese were in the first wave of the Mongolian conquest of Iran and Iraq - a Chinese general, Guo Kan, was first governor of Baghdad after its capture in AD 1258.
  4. ^ Woolf, Daniel (2011-02-17). A Global History of History. Cambridge University Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-521-87575-2.

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