Shihab al-Din Muhammad al-Nasawi ( fa, شهاب الدین محمد النساوی; died c. 1250) was a Persian secretary and biographer of the

Khwarazmshah Khwarazmshah was an ancient title used regularly by the rulers of the Central Asian region of Khwarazm starting from the Late Antiquity until the advent of the Mongols in the early 13th-century, after which it was used infrequently. There were a to ...

Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu Jalal al-Din Mangburni ( fa, جلال الدین مِنکُبِرنی), also known as Jalal al-Din Khwarazmshah (), Minkubirni or Mengu-Berdi (c.1199 – August 1231), was the last Khwarazmshah of the Anushteginid dynasty. The eldest son and suc ...

(). Born in

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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. He had beforehand written another work, the ''Nafthat al-masdur'', an account of his life prior to 1231, written in Persian c. 1234/5.

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* * * 1250 deaths 13th-century Iranian historians Year of birth unknown Officials of the Khwarazmian Empire {{iran-historian-stub