Ata-Malik Juvayni

Ata Malik Juvayni
Governor of Baghdad
In office 1259 – unknown
Preceded by	Guo Kan
Personal details
Born	1226 Juvayn, Greater Khorasan
Died	1283 Azerbaijan
Nationality	Persian
Military service
Allegiance	Mongol Empire, Ilkhanate

Atâ-Malek Juvayni (1226–1283) (Persian: عطاملک جوینی‎‎), in full, Ala al-Din Ata-ullah (Persian: علاءالدین عطاءالله‎‎), was a Persian historian who wrote an account of the Mongol Empire entitled Tarīkh-i Jahān-gushā (History of the World Conqueror).

He was born in Juvayn, a city in Khorasan in eastern Persia. Both his grandfather and his father, Baha al-Din, had held the post of sahib-divan or Minister of Finance for Muhammad Jalal al-Din and Ögedei Khan respectively. Baha al-Din also acted as deputy c. 1246 for his immediate superior, the emir Arghun, in which role he oversaw a large area including Georgia and Armenia.

Juvayni too became an important official of the empire. He visited the Mongol capital of Karakorum twice, beginning his history of the Mongols conquests on one such visit (c. 1252-53). He was with Ilkhan Hulagu in 1256 at the taking of Alamut and was responsible for saving part of its celebrated library. He had also accompanied Hulagu during the sack of Baghdad in 1258, and the next year was appointed governor of Baghdad, Lower Mesopotamia, and Khuzistan. Around 1282, Juvayni 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 Azerbaijan.

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