Ata-Malik Juvayni
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] |
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| Born | 1226 Mughan |
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| Allegiance | Mongol Empire, Ilkhanate |
Atâ-Malek Juvayni (
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]
Early life
Juvayni was born in
Muhammad Jalal al-Din and Ögedei Khan respectively. Baha al-Din also acted as deputy c. 1246 for his immediate superior, the emir Arghun Aqa, in which role he oversaw a large area, including the Kingdom of Georgia.[5]
Career
Juvayni, just as his predecessors became an important state official. He visited the Mongol capital of
Mughan
.
Siege of Alamut
Juvayni's brother was the powerful
Avag Mkhargrdzeli, Lord High Constable of Georgia, and Gvantsa, a noblewoman who went on to become queen of Georgia
.
Work and legacy
Shahristan of Joveyn
, the town of birth of JuvayniJuvayni's position at court and his family connections made him privy to information unavailable to other historians. For unknown reasons, Juvayni's Tarikh-i Jahangushay ends in 1260, more than twenty years before his death.
The standard edition of Juvayni's history is published under the title Tarikh-i Jahangushay, ed.
Mirza Muhammad Qazwini
, 3 vol, Gibb Memorial Series 16 (Leiden and London, 1912–37). An English translation by John Andrew Boyle The History of the World-Conqueror was republished in 1997.
References
- ^ a b "Consultation Supplément Persan 205". archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr.
- ^ 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.
- 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.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-521-87575-2.
- ISSN 0021-0862.
Juvaini, who worked as Arghun Aqa's private secretary from 1243
- ISBN 978-0-521-61636-2.
- ^ Dashdondog 2011, p. 166.
Sources
- Biran, Michal (2009). "JOVAYNI, ṢĀḤEB DIVĀN". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XV, Fasc. 1. pp. 71–74.
- Rajabzadeh, Hashem (2009). "JOVAYNI FAMILY". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XV, Fasc. 1. pp. 61–63.
- Ashraf, Ahmad (2006). "Iranian identity iii. Medieval Islamic period". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XIII, Fasc. 5. pp. 507–522.
- Dashdondog, Bayarsaikhan (2011). The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335) (PDF). Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-18635-4.
External links
- History of the World Conqueror by Ala Ad Din Ata Malik Juvaini, translated by John Andrew Boyle, Harvard University Press 1958, on the Internet Archive
- ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAṭā Malik Juvaynī (1997). Genghis Khan: the history of the world conqueror. Manchester University Press ND. p. 763. ISBN 0-7190-5145-2. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
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