Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani

{{short description|Persian historian}}

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|name = Minhaj al-Siraj Juzjani

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|birth_date = 1193

|birth_place = Ghur, Ghurid dynasty

|death_date = after 1266

|death_place = Mamluk India

|employer = Ghurid dynasty
Mamluk Sultanate

|occupation = Historian

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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 historianJames P. Delgado, Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada, (University of California Press, 2008), p.38. born in the region of Ghur.{{sfn|Bosworth|2000}}

In 1227, Juzjani immigrated to Ucch and, thereafter, to Delhi.C.E. Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids, (Columbia University Press, 1977), 112. The principal historian of the Mamluk Sultanate of Delhi in northern India,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)...." Juzjani wrote of the Ghurid dynasty as well.{{Cite web |url=http://www.alamahabibi.com/English%20Articles/Amir_Kror_and_His_Ancestry.htm |title=SURIS OF GHOR AND THE SHINASP FAMILY |quote=Minhaj Siraj Juzjani, historian of the Ghorid court, speaks of other celebrated and powerful personalities of the Suris who were the ancestors of the kings of Ghor. |work=Abdul Hai Habibi |publisher=alamahabibi.com |access-date=August 14, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019183825/http://www.alamahabibi.com/English%20Articles/Amir_Kror_and_His_Ancestry.htm|archive-date=19 October 2014}} He 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.