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Juvaini

Type Figure Region Persia Time 1226–1283 Also known as Ata-Malik Juvaini、Ala al-Din Ata-Malik Juvayni、Ala-ad-Din Ata-Malik Djovayni

Juvaini (1226–1283), Persian historian and administrator from a Khurasani bureaucratic family.…

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  1. 1226–1251Juwayn · KhurasanJuvaini was born in Juwayn, Khurasan, a family that had held local administrative posts for generations. After the Mongol conquest his brother also entered Mongol service; Juvaini was educated under the Ilkhanate system in his youth and prepared for official service.
  2. 1252–1260Baghdad · BaghdadIn the 1250s Juvaini held administrative and secretarial posts under Hulegu, and was present in 1258 when the Mongol army besieged and captured Baghdad, ending the Abbasid caliphate. He was thereafter entrusted with affairs in Mesopotamia, gathering first-hand material for the History of the World Conqueror.
  3. 1259–1283Baghdad · BaghdadFrom 1259 Juvaini served as governor of Baghdad and the Iraqi region, overseeing postwar reconstruction and tax administration. Using his office to collect archives and oral sources, he wrote the three-volume History of the World Conqueror, systematically narrating Mongol expansion from Genghis Khan to Hulegu, one of the most important Persian-language chronicles of the 13th century.

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