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
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...
born in the region of
Ghur.
In 1227, Juzjani migrated to
Ucch then to
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders wi ...
. Juzjani was the principal historian for the
Mamluk Sultanate of Delhi in northern India. and wrote of the
Ghurid dynasty.
He also wrote the ''
Tabaqat-i Nasiri'' (1260 CE) for ''Sultan''
Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah of Delhi.
[''Indian Historical Writing c.600-c.1400'', Duad Ali, The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 2: 400-1400, (Oxford University Press, 2012), 94.] He died after 1266.
See also
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Muslim chronicles for Indian history
References
Sources
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Further reading
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External links
Tabaqat-i-Nasiria
Banglapedia
Tabaqat-i Nasiria
Iranica online
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1193 births
13th-century writers
Year of death missing
13th-century deaths
Chroniclers
12th-century Iranian people
13th-century Iranian people
Mamluk dynasty (Delhi)
People of the Ghurid Empire
Iranian emigrants to India
Historians of India
People from Jowzjan Province