Sharaf al-Din Harun Juvayni

Sharaf al-Din Harun Juvayni (Persian: شرف الدین هارون جوینی; also spelled Joveyni) was a Persian statesman and poet from the Juvayni family. He was the son of Shams al-Din Juvayni.

He was executed in either in July or August 1286 due to a defamation by Fakhr al-Din Mustawfi, who was a cousin of the historian and geographer Hamdallah Mustawfi.

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