Ata-Malik Juvayni

Type Figure Region Persia Time 1226–1283 Also known as Juvaini

Born in Persia in 1226, a historian and administrator of the Mongol era who held high office in the Ilkhanate;…

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1226–1240Juvayn (Khurasan) · KhurasanBorn in 1226 in a prominent Persian family near Juvayn in Khurasan, he grew up in the era of West Asia's political reorganization after the Mongol conquest, receiving training in Persian and Islamic scholarship from childhood.
c. 1250–1283Baghdad · BaghdadHe successively served various Mongol khans and held important posts in Baghdad and elsewhere, using official archives and first-hand experience to write the History of the World Conqueror, systematically narrating conquest and governance from Genghis Khan to Hulegu.

Juvaynī, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAṭā Malik — C. E. Bosworth https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/juvayni-sala-al-din-ata-malik-SIM_2117
The History of The World Conqueror — Ala-ad-Din Ata-Malik Juvaini (1958)