Shihab al-Din Muhammad al-Nasawi
{{Short description|Secretary and biographer of the Khwarazmshah Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu}}
Shihab al-Din Muhammad al-Nasawi ({{langx|fa|شهاب الدین محمد النساوی}}; died c. 1250) was a Persian{{sfn|Manz|2020|pp=272–273}} secretary and biographer of the Khwarazmshah Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu ({{reign|1220|1231}}). Born in Nasa in Khorasan, he witnessed first-hand the Mongol invasion of Khorasan and Jalal ad-Din's subsequent flight and military adventures of which he left an account written in Arabic c. 1241.{{cite book|last1=Levi|first1=Scott Cameron|last2=Sela|first2=Ron|title=Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Historical Sources|year=2010|publisher=Indiana University Press|location=Bloomington, IN|isbn=978-0253353856|page=125}} He had beforehand written another work, the Nafthat al-masdur, an account of his life prior to 1231, written in Persian c. 1234/5.{{sfn|Jackson|1993|p=974}}
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- {{EI2 | last = Jackson | first = P. | authorlink = | title = al-Nasawī | url = https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/al-nasawi-SIM_5809 | volume = 7 | pages = 973–974}}
- {{cite book | title = The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion | year = 2017 | publisher = Yale University Press | last = Jackson | first = Peter | pages = | isbn = 9780300227284 | jstor = 10.3366/j.ctt1n2tvq0 }} {{registration required}}
- {{cite book |last=Manz|first= Beatrice Forbes|author-link=Beatrice Forbes Manz|title=Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia |publisher=Brill|year=2020 |isbn=978-9004431300|editor-last=Steenbergen|editor-first=Jo Van|pages=257–282|chapter=Iranian Elites under the Timurids|url=https://brill.com/view/title/57550}}
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Category:13th-century Iranian historians
Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:Officials of the Khwarazmian Empire
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