Ata-Malik Juvayni
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Ata-Malik Juvayni was a bureaucrat and historian from the Juvayni family who served under the Mongol Empire. He is known for composing the Tarikh-i Jahangushay, an important account on the history of
Depiction of Ata-Malik Juvayni writing, from a 1290 edition of the Tarikh-i Jahangushay. Located in the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Ögedei Khan
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Ögedei Khan was the second khan of the Mongol Empire. The third son of Genghis Khan, he continued the expansion of the empire that his father had begun.
Ata-Malik Juvayni
…the Seljuk era. 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 Aqa, in which role he oversaw a large area, including…
Ögedei Khan portrayed in a 14th-century Yuan-era album, originally painted in 1278 (National Palace Museum, Taipei)
Statue of Ögedei Khan in Sükhbaatar Square, Ulaanbaatar. Together with Kublai Khan's, and the much larger Genghis Khan's statues, it forms a statue complex dedicated to the Mongol Empire.
Coronation of Ögedei in 1229, by Rashid al-Din, early 14th century
Detail of miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible depicting the Mongols capturing a city (16th century)