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Aug 18, 2015 · 18 August 2015. The travels of a manuscript: Rashid al-Din's Compendium of Chronicles (Add.7628) 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.
2.1—The Mongol Empire. READ: Rashid al-Din – Graphic Biography. Google Classroom. One of the most powerful advisers of the Mongol Ilkhan Ghazan (who ruled from 1295 to 1304), Rashid Al-Din undertook one of the first written histories, the Jami Al-Tawarikh.
Rashid al-Din’s Jāmiʿ al-tavārīkh or Compendium of Chronicles—the subject of this essay—is significant for a host of reasons. The text, compiled over the first decade of the 1300s, is the first universal chronicle that does not present the cultures and historiographies of other regions simply as extensions of its own geographic and ...
