Shihab al-Din Muhammad al-Nasawi explained

Shihab al-Din Muhammad al-Nasawi (fa|شهاب الدین محمد النساوی; died c. 1250) was a Persian secretary and biographer of the Khwarazmshah Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu . 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.^[1] 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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Notes and References

1. Book: Levi. Scott Cameron. Sela. Ron. Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Historical Sources. 2010. Indiana University Press. Bloomington, IN. 978-0253353856. 125.