Shihab al-Din Muhammad al-Nasawi

Shihab al-Din Muhammad al-Nasawi (died c. 1250) was a secretary and biographer of Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu, the Khwarezmid dynast. Born in Nasa in Khorasan, he witnessed first-hand the Mongol invasion of Khorasan and Jalal ad-Din's subsequent flight and military adventures of which he left an account written in Arabic c. 1241.^[1]

References

↑ Levi, Scott Cameron; Sela, Ron (2010). Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Historical Sources. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. p. 125. ISBN 0253353858.

People of Khorasan

Scientists:	Abu Ma'shar Abu Wafa Abu Zayd Balkhi Alfraganus Ali Qushji Avicenna Birjandi Biruni Hāsib Marwazī Ibn Hayyān Khāzin Khāzinī Khujandi Khwarizmi Nasawi Nasir al-Din Tusi Omar Khayyám Sharaf al-Din Tusi Sijzi

Philosophers:	Ghazali Amiri Avicenna Farabi Nasir Khusraw Qushayri Sejestani Shahrastani

Islamic Scholars:	Abu Dawood Abu Hanifa Ahmad ibn Hanbal Ansari Baghavi Bayhaqi Bukhari Hākim Nishapuri Juwayni Marghinani Maturidi Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Nishapuri Nasafi Nasa'i Qushayri Razi Shaykh Tusi Taftazani Tirmidhi Zamakhshari

Poets and artists:	Abu al-Khair Attar Behzad Daqiqi Ferdowsi Jami Rabi'a Balkhi Rudaki Rumi Sanā'ī Hasanoglu

Historians and political figures:	Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi Abu Muslim Abu Saʿīd Gardēzī Ali Sher Nava'i Ata al-Mulk Juvayni Aufi Muhammad Bal'ami Goharshad Begum Ibn Khordadbeh Khalid ibn Barmak Nizam al-Mulk Tahir ibn Husayn Yahya Barmaki Ahmad ibn Nizam al-Mulk Shihab al-Nasawi

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