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Having converted to Islam from Judaism by the age of 30 in 1277, Rashid al-Din became the powerful vizier of Ilkhan Ghazan. He was commissioned by Ghazan to write the Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh, now considered the most important single source for the history of the Ilkhanate period and the Mongol Empire. He retained his position as a vizier until 1316.
Rashid al-Din, sometimes referred to by his contemporaries as Rashid Tabib (“Rashid the physician”), is commonly thought to have been born ca. 1247 in Hamadan, Iran.
- Sienna Z. Jackson
- 2012
Rashid-al-Din Hamadani was born in 1247 at Hamadan, Iran into a Jewish family. The son of an apothecary , he studied medicine and joined the court of the Ilkhan emperor, Abaqa Khan , in that capacity.
The editor of the text, Rashid al-Din (1247–1318), was learned not only in history but also in theology, philosophy, and science. 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 ( Fazlallah Tabib al-Hamdani , "the physician from Hamadan"; 1247–1318). He was born to Jewish parents in *Hamadan. He was the son of ʿImād al-Dawla b. Abu al-Khayr, a pharmacist by profession.
Aug 18, 2015 · The Jāmiʿ al-tavārīkh or ‘Compendium of Chronicles’ is a monumental universal history composed by Rashīd al-Dīn (d. 1317) in Persian at the beginning of the 14th century.
Rashīd al-Dīn Tabīb also Rashīd al-Dīn Fadhl-allāh Hamadānī (1247–1318) , was a Persian physician of Jewish origin, polymathic writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history, the Jami al-Tawarikh, in the Persian language, often considered a landmark in intercultural historiography and a key document on the Ilkhanids (13th ...
