Born in Baghdad: ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Juwaynī and the Composition of Tārīkh-i Jahāngushā

In this article we scrutinize the process of composition of the Tārīkh-i Jahāngushā through a closer look at the manuscript corpus as well as clues from the text to shed some light on the process of its composition and early canonization, as well as the career of ʿAṭā Malik Juwaynī (1226-1283), which is intertwined with it. To that end, a number of textual clues, stylistic observations, and other manuscript evidence is utilized to argue that despite its early can-onization and wide acceptance in an assumed “final” form, the text of Tārīkh-i Jahāngushā suffers from numerous inner inconsistencies and is at least in parts of multiple authorship. We further make a case for it to have assumed its “final” form in Baghdad.