Genghis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror.(Review)

From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 1999| Author: Rossabi, Morris | Copyright information

Genghis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror. By Ata-Malik Juvaini. Translated by J. A. Boyle. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. Pp. lxvii, 763. $40.00.)

Together with The Secret History of the Mongols, Ala-ad-Din Ata-Malik Juvaini's The History of the World Conqueror are the two most important primary sources on the early history of the Mongols. Though Juvaini's birth around 1226 meant that he could not have observed Chinggis Khan's forays into central...

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