Tarikh-i Jahangushay by Ata-Malik Juvayni is one of the most significant texts in ‎Persian historiography. Beyond recording political and military events, it offers ‎profound descriptions of destruction, death, and lived human experience in tragic ‎moments, particularly in its narration of the Nishapur massacre. However, dominant ‎readings of this text have largely focused on event narration, ideological analyses, or ‎language-centered examinations, paying little attention to the perceptual and ‎embodied layer of the experience of violence. In this study, Maurice Merleau-‎Ponty’s phenomenological thought—emphasizing the perceiving body as the core of ‎ontology—is employed as the theoretical framework to demonstrate how catastrophe ‎is recorded not merely at the level of language or narrative but as a sensory, spatial, ‎and lived experience within the historical text. The study aims to provide a novel ‎reading of the Nishapur event in Tarikh-i Jahangoshay and explain how "the ‎perception of violence" and "the body of catastrophe" are represented in Juvayni’s ‎descriptions. The research method is descriptive-analytical, grounded in ‎phenomenological text analysis, focusing on concepts such as the lived body, lived ‎space, and the collapse of perceptual horizons. The findings reveal that Joveyni’s ‎narrative is rich with sensory and bodily markers, enabling access to a layer of ‎historical reality that transcends purely political or linguistic narratives—a layer ‎where catastrophe is experienced and recorded as the collapse of the lived world and ‎the erasure of the body from meaning.‎