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Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb ( Persian: رشیدالدین طبیب ; 1247–1318; also known as Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍlullāh Hamadānī, Persian: رشیدالدین فضلالله همدانی) was a statesman, historian and physician in Ilkhanate Iran. [1] Having converted to Islam from Judaism by the age of 30 in 1277, Rashid al-Din became the powerful vizier of Ilkhan Ghazan.
Rashīd al-Dīn belonged to a Jewish family of Hamadan, but he was converted to Islam and, as a physician, joined the court of the Mongol ruler of Persia, the Il-Khan Abagha (1265–82). He became vizier to Maḥmūd Ghāzān in 1298 and served under his successor Öljeitü.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
Rashid al-Din was a remarkable cultural influence and political force in Mongol Ilkhanid Iran, a historian, author and polymath who rose to extraordinary heights of power under the reigns of four successive khans.
- Sienna Z. Jackson
- 2012
Twenty years later, namely around 1298, Rashid al-Din became a deputy to Sadr al-Din Zanjāni, the vizier of Arghun's son, Ghazan Khan (r. 1295–1304). A few months later, Sadr al-Din was put to death and his place was taken by Saʿd al-Din Sāvaji who made Rashid al-Din his associate.
Jan 1, 2022 · The Arabic copy of Rashid al-Din’s Jāmiʿ al-tavārīkh dated 714/1314‒15 and divided between Edinburgh University Library (Or. ms. 20) and the Khalili Collection in London (ms. 727) is of seminal importance as one of the first and most extensively illustrated histories produced in Iran.
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We learn from the preface that ʿAbd al-Hadi ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud ibn Ibrahim al-Maraghi did the translation from Arabic to Persian on the order of Ghazan, and the text in the rosette on folio 2 says that this manuscript was made for Shams al-Din ibn Ziyaʾ al-Din al-Zushki, but we do not know who he was and whether he played any role in the ...
