Juvayni's chapters on the Uyghur kingdom (its origin legend, Beshbaliq and Qocho, and the idiqut Barchuq's murder of the Qara Khitai resident before his submission to Chinggis Khan in 1209) and on the Gur Khans of the Qara Khitai are the fullest Muslim account of the Tarim and Zhetysu around 1200: the gurkhan Zhilugu's court at Balasagun, his tax collectors in the oasis towns and in Samarkand, his relations with the Khwarazmshah Tekish and then Muhammad, and the arrival of the Naiman prince Kuchlug in 1208. Written for Mongol masters fifty years later, so hostile to the Qara Khitai and kind to those who submitted early.
About this source
- Title
- Tarikh-i Jahangushay (تاریخ جهانگشای): the chapters on the Qara Khitai and the Uyghur idiqut
- Author
- Ala al-Din Ata-Malik Juvayni
- Author's dates
- 1226 to 1283
- Written
- begun about 1252 to 1253, ends with 1260
- Language
- Persian
- Covers
- the Mongol conquests from Chinggis Khan to 1260, with retrospective chapters on the Uyghurs, the Qara Khitai and the Khwarazmshahs
- Kind
- History
Boyle's translation is under copyright and not linked. Another entry in this library covers Juvayni for Persia and Khwarazm; this one is limited to the Uyghurs and the Qara Khitai. The Internet Archive record lists the 1912 Persian text under 'Arabic' by mistake.
Where to read it
Editions
Translations
- J. A. Boyle, The History of the World-Conqueror, 2 vols (Manchester, 1958; reprinted 1997), English (not freely online)
About the source
Realms this source covers in 1200
- The Qara Khitai: the gurkhan's own lands
- The Uyghur kingdom of Qocho and Beshbaliq
- The oasis lordships of the Tarim, vassals of the Qara Khitai
- Kashgar: the Eastern Qarakhanids
- Samarkand: the Western Qarakhanids
- Bukhara: the sadrs of the house of Burhan
- Ferghana: the khans of Uzgend
- The Khwarazmshah's realm
- The Qarluq and the nomads of the Ili, the Zhetysu and Dzungaria
- The Naiman of Tayang and Buyiruq