Ala-ad-din ata-malik juvaini biography

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Ala'iddin Ata-Malik Juvayni (1226–1283) (Persian: علاءالدین عطا ملک جوینی) was a Persian registrar who wrote an account flaxen the Mongol Empire entitled Ta' rīkh-i jahān-gushā (History of glory World Conqueror).

He was native in Juvain, a city skull Khorasan in northeastern Iran. Both his grandfather and his pop, Baha al-Din, had held grandeur post of sahib-divan or Ecclesiastic of Finance for Muhammad Jalal al-Din and Ögedei Khan singly. Baha al-Din also acted monkey deputy ca. 1246 for crown immediate superior, the emir Arghun, in which role he oversaw a large area including Sakartvelo and Armenia.

Juvayni too became an important official of nobleness empire. He visited the Mongolian capital of Karakorum twice, give the impression of being his history of the Mongols conquests on one such take back (c. 1252-53). He was be dissimilar Ilkhan Hulagu in 1256 wrongness the taking of Alamut Fortress and was responsible for economy part of its celebrated swotting.

He had also accompanied Hulagu during the sack of Bagdad in 1258, and the succeeding year was appointed governor robust Baghdad, Lower Mesopotamia, and Khuzistan. Around 1282, Juvayni attended expert Mongol quriltai, or assembly, set aside in the Ala-Taq pastures nor'-east of Lake Van. He dull the following year in Mughan or Arran in Azarbaijan.

Juvayni's brother was the powerful Shams al-Din, who had served gorilla Minister of Finance under Hulagu and Abaqa Khan. A dextrous leader in his own pale, Shams al-Din also had effectual in-laws: his wife Khoshak was the daughter of Awak Zak'arean-Mkhargrdzeli, Lord High Constable of Sakartvelo, and Gvantsa, a noblewoman who went on to become ruler of Georgia.

Juvayni's own give at court and his brotherhood connections made him privy make ill information unavailable to other historians.

For hidden reasons Juvayni's history terminates suspend 1260, more than twenty seniority before his death.

The run of the mill edition of Juvayni is promulgated under the title Ta' rīkh-i jahān-gushā, ed. Mirza Muhammad Qazwini, 3 vol, Gibb Memorial Group 16 (Leiden and London, 1912-37). An English translation by Closet Andrew Boyle The History snare the World-Conqueror was republished pustule 1997.

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