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Gaykhatu ( Mongolian script: ᠭᠠᠶᠢᠬᠠᠯᠳᠤ; Mongolian: Гайхалт, romanized: Gaikhat, lit. 'Surprising') [1] was the fifth Ilkhanate ruler in Iran. He reigned from 1291 to 1295. His Buddhist baghshi gave him the Tibetan name Rinchindorj ( Standard Tibetan: རིན་ཆེན་རྡོ་རྗེ, lit. 'Jewel Diamond ...
Other articles where Gaykhatu is discussed: Iran: The Il-Khans: …the Chinese money, failed under Gaykhatu (reigned 1291–95). Gaykhatu was followed briefly by Baydu (died 1295), who was supplanted by the greatest of the Il-Khans, Maḥmūd Ghāzān (1295–1304). Ghāzān abandoned Buddhism—the faith in which his grandfather Abagha, Hülegü’s successor (1265–82), had reared him—and ...
Gaykhatu Khan (1291 – 1295) practically emptied the royal treasury with profligate spending. He experimented with paper money recently adopted from China to compensate for his wasteful expenditures, but overprinting resulted in massive inflation.
He was the son of a Jewish apothecary from Hamadan in western Iran and converted to Islam around the age of thirty. Rashid al-Din enjoyed a long career in the Ilkhanid court, starting as physician to Abaqa (r. 1265–82) and rising to become associate vizier and, later, a powerful vizier under Geikhatu, Gaykhatu, and Uljaitu.
Gaykhatu Khan (1291 – 1295) practically emptied the royal treasury with profligate spending. He experimented with paper money recently adopted from China to compensate for his wasteful expenditures, but overprinting resulted in massive inflation.
GAYḴĀTŪ KHAN, fifth Mongol Il-khan of Persia (690-94/1291-95); his coins also bear the name Īrinjīn Dūrjī (Tibetan Rin-chen rDo-rje “Jewel Diamond”) bestowed upon him by Buddhist lamas.
Gaykhatu is the 1,721st most popular politician (up from 3,451st in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Iran (up from 117th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Iranian Politician. Gaykhatu is most famous for being the site of the ancient city of Nineveh, which is now in ruins.
