Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani

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Minhaj al-Siraj Juzjani
Born 1193
Ghur, Ghurid dynasty
Died after 1266
Mamluk India
Occupation Historian
Employer Ghurid dynasty
Mamluk Sultanate

Minhaj-al-Din Abu Amr Othman ibn Siraj-al-Din Muhammad Juzjani (born 1193), simply known as Minhaj al-Siraj Juzjani, was a 13th-century Persian historian[1] born in the region of Ghur.[2]

In 1227, Juzjani immigrated to Ucch and, thereafter, to Delhi.[3] The principal historian of the Mamluk Sultanate of Delhi in northern India,[4] Juzjani wrote of the Ghurid dynasty as well.[5] He wrote the Tabaqat-i Nasiri (1260 AD) for Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah of Delhi.[6] He died after 1266.

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  1. James P. Delgado, Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada, (University of California Press, 2008), p.38.
  2. Bosworth 2000.
  3. C.E. Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids, (Columbia University Press, 1977), 112.
  4. Shafique N. Virani, The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A Search for Salvation, (Oxford University Press, 2007), 23;"Minhaj-i-Siraj Juzjani, the foremost historian of the Delhi Sultanate, wrote his "Nasirid Generations"(Tabaqat-i Nasiri)...."
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  6. Indian Historical Writing c.600-c.1400, Duad Ali, The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 2: 400-1400, (Oxford University Press, 2012), 94.