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Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani

Persian historian

Field	Value
name	Minhaj al-Siraj Juzjani
birth_date	1193
birth_place	Ghur, Ghurid dynasty
death_date	after 1266
death_place	Mamluk India
employer	Ghurid dynasty
Mamluk Sultanate
occupation	Historian

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 born in the region of Ghur.

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

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James P. Delgado, ''Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada'', (University of California Press, 2008), p.38.
C.E. Bosworth, ''The Later Ghaznavids'', (Columbia University Press, 1977), 112.
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)...."
"SURIS OF GHOR AND THE SHINASP FAMILY". alamahabibi.com.
''Indian Historical Writing c.600-c.1400'', Duad Ali, '''The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 2: 400-1400''', (Oxford University Press, 2012), 94.

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