His date of birth is unknown but died at an old age in the late 1320 [1320-1329 CE]’s. He was an
official of the Mongol dominated Anatolia working under the authority of the naib Mud̲j̲īr
al-Dīn Amīr Shāh. When the naib died, Maḥmūd Ghāzān, Ilkhān of the Mongols, 1271-1304 appointed
Aqsarāʾī as nāẓir (or intendant
of the awḳāf) in Anatolia. He later served also as military commandant (kutwāl) of
his hometown Aksaray (Turkey). At
the end of his life he composed his only work, a history of Anatolia under Mongol domination in Persian
language. Like all local histories of Anatolia, his works seems to have had limited distribution and was not
read outside of Anatolia (see (Peacock_Seljuk_EIr)). The text was
only used by Qāḍī Aḥmad of Niğde, fl. 14th century, قاضي احمد نيغدة, and the Ottoman compiler Aḥmad ibn Luṭf Allāh Munajjim Bāshī,
1631-1702 in pre-modern times but is one of the most important
sources for the history of 13th and 14th
century [1200-1399 CE]
Anatolia together with the al-Avāmir al-ʻalāʼīyah fī al-umūr al-ʻalāʼīyah
(الاوامر العلائيه فى الامور
العلائيه) of Ibn Bībī .
A historical chronicle written in Persian prose covering mostly the events of
Anatolia and Iran under Mongol domination. This period is included
only in the last chapter of the chronicle (chapter fourth) but it takes up to
three-quarters of the book contents, including the last 75 years that were
contemporary with Aqsarāʾī
himself. () Show more
