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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.
Apr 3, 2024 · Rashīd al-Dīn (born 1247—died 1318) was a Persian statesman and historian who was the author of a universal history, Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh (“Collector of Chronicles”). 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 ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
It is certain that his life experience as an ethnically Jewish man influenced his political career and his charitable work. 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
Written by Rashid al-Din Hamadani (1247–1318 AD) at the start of the 14th century, the breadth of coverage of the work has caused it to be called "the first world history". It was in three volumes and published in Arabic and Persian versions.
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.
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The doctor, Rashid al-Din from the city of Hamadan, had recently been the most powerful individual in the realm, an adviser to kings, patron of scholarship and charity, and author in genres as diverse as history, theology and natural philosophy.
Artist: Liz Clarke. 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. In art and text, this book presented the Ilkhan as both the leading Islamic ruler and the inheritor of a vast and diverse tradition from across Eurasia.
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