Abstract:
The fate of Sultan Jalal al-din khawrazmshah is a controversial event in Islamic Persian history. A narration of the fate of Jalal al-din that is accepted by some of the modern historian refers to the murder of Jalal al-din khawrazmshah by a Kurd. But it seems that this narration need to be criticized. In fact there are some probable narrations on fate of Jalal al-din. So this article tries to answers these questions: can we historically accept the fate of Jalal al-din khawrazmshah? Which narration is historically reliable? It seems that the source of Nasawi’s report and also the other possibilities are ignored by the researchers.
Machine summary:
Considering that Jalal al-Din's life was of great importance to Muslims and was considered their only hope against the Mongols, his end is mixed with ambiguity and various accounts, and historians of the Mongol era and thereafter have presented different narratives; however, a number of researchers have written with "certainty" and "inevitability" that 4 Jalal al-Din "was killed by the Kurds in mid-Shawwal 628.
Before analyzing this narrative, it should be noted that a researcher such as Minovi, who spent years correcting the book Sīrat Jalāl al-Dīn, believes that Nasawi, contrary to his claim of accuracy in historiography, did not observe the principles of historiography, and there are particularly doubts regarding the origin of some of his reports; for example, "he has stated matters regarding the origin of the Tatars and the history of Genghis that he has neither seen himself nor heard from anyone who has seen them, and they do not agree with reliable histories, neither Chinese and Mongol, nor Persian and Arabic".
These doubts regarding Nasawi's narrative gain more strength when, in the following decades, historians such as Ata al-Mulk Juwayni,31 Rashid al-Din Fadlallah Hamadani,32 Ibn Abri,33 Nizam al-Din Qadi Baydawi,34 Wassaf al-Hadra,35 Shabankara'i,36 Banakati,37 Sharaf al-Din Yazdi,38 regarding the killing of Jalal al-Din by the Kirdids, not only definitively transmit Nasawi's narrative 29.
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