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Encyclopaedia Judaica. RASHID AL-DINRASHID 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.
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.
Artist: Liz Clarke. Rashid al-Din was a Muslim intellectual whose history of the world showed the diversity of the peoples and ideas mixing in the Mongol Ilkhanate. Download the Graphic Biography PDF here or click on the image above.
Nov 16, 2019 · A painted manuscript of the "Compendium of Chronicles" by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247 – 1318 CE). This illumination from a mid 15th Century manscript depicts the siege of Baghdad in 1258 by the army of Hulegu Khan (r. 1256 – 1265 CE), after which it was destroyed.
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 ...
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