Ata Malik Juvayni | |
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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 by | Guo Kan[3] |
Personal details | |
Born | 1226 Juvayn, Greater Khorasan |
Died | 1283 Mughan |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Mongol 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]
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.