Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani
Minhaj al-Siraj Juzjani | |
|---|---|
منهاج سراج جوزجانی | |
| Born | 1193 |
| Died | after 1266 |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Employer(s) | 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,[a][4] Juzjani wrote of the Ghurid dynasty as well.[5] He wrote the Tabaqat-i Nasiri (1260 CE) for Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah of Delhi.[6] He died in 1266.[7]
Juzjani's grandson, Sadr-ud Din Arif, served as the deputy chief Qadi during the reign of sultan Alauddin Khalji, and had married Khudawandzada Begum, the daughter of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq. Their son, Dawar Malik, was a son-in-law of Muhammad bin Tughlaq, and was a claimant to the throne after Muhammad bin Tughlaq's death in 1351.[8]
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Notes
- ↑ "Minhaj-i-Siraj Juzjani, the foremost historian of the Delhi Sultanate, wrote his "Nasirid Generations" (Tabaqat-i Nasiri)...."
References
- ↑ Delgado 2008, p. 38.
- ↑ Bosworth 2000.
- ↑ Bosworth 1977, p. 112.
- ↑ Virani 2007, p. 23.
- ↑ Siddiqi 2010, p. 13.
- ↑ Ali 2012, p. 94.
- ↑ Haeri 2020, p. 107.
- ↑ Jackson 1999, p. 166, 190-191.
Sources
- Ali, Duad (2012). "Indian Historical Writing c.600-c.1400". In Woolf, Daniel R.; Feldherr, Andrew; Hardy, Grant (eds.). The Oxford History of Historical Writing. Vol. 2: 400-1400. Oxford University Press.
- Bosworth, C.E. (1977). The Later Ghaznavids. Columbia University Press.
- Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (2000). "Menhāj-e Serāj". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica (Online ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation.
- Delgado, James P. (2008). Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada. University of California Press.
- Haeri, Shahla (2020). The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, Gender. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107123038.
- Jackson, Peter (1999). The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Siddiqi, Iqtidar Husain (2010). Indo-Persian Historiography Up to the Thirteenth Century. Primus Books. ISBN 9788190891806.
- Virani, Shafique N. (2007). The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A Search for Salvation. Oxford University Press.
Further reading
- Rasikh, Jawan Shir (2020). "The many lives of a medieval Muslim scholar: An introduction to the life and times of Minhaj Siraj al-Din Juzjani, 1193–1260 CE". Afghanistan. 3 (2): 111–134. doi:10.3366/afg.2020.0053. S2CID 226344817.
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