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'Ala'iddin Ata-Malik Juvayni' (1226 – 1283) (Persian: علاءالدين عطا ملك جويني) was a Persian historian who wrote the famous ''Tarikh-i-Jahan Gusha'' (meaning The History of the World Conqueror) (finished in 1259 CE).
He was born in Juvain, a city in the Province of Greater Khorasan which include North of Afghanistan and the present-day Province of Khorasan in Eastern Iran.
His grandfather was the ''sahib-divan'' or Minister of Finance for the Khwarazm Shahs Muhammad Jalal al-Din. Juvaini's own father, Baha ad-Din, became the Minister of Finance for Genghis Khan's successor, Ogedei and during the absence of his immediate superior, the emir Arghun (c. 1246) Baha al-Din acted as Arghun's deputy over a large area including Georgia and Armenia.
Juvaini himself became an important official of the empire. Twice during his youth he had visited the Mongol capital of Qara-Qorum, commencing his history of the Mongols conquests on one such visit (c. 1252-53). He had been with the IlKhan Hulagu in 1256 at the taking of the Alamut, and was responsible for saving part of its celebrated library. He had accompanied Hulagu during the sack of Baghdad (1258), and the next year was appointed governor of Baghdad, Lower Mesopotamia, and Khuzistan by him. Around 1282, Juvaini attended a Mongol ''quriltai'' (or assembly) held in the Ala-Taq pastures, northeast of Lake Van. He died the following year in Mughan or Arran in Azarbaijan.
Juvaini's influential brother Shams ad-Din, who had served as Minister of Finance under Khans Hulagu and Abaqa, was the husband of Khoshak', daughter of Awak Zak'arean-Margrceli. Consequently, both through his own work and through family connections, Juvaini was privy to information unavailable to other historians. For some unknown reason Juvaini's history terminates more than twenty years before the author's death, with the year 1260.

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★ ''Mongols, Huns, and Vikings,'' by Hugh Kennedy, 2002.

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★ List of Iranian scholars