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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
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.
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.
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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.
Jul 25, 2022 · Stefan Kamola’s Making Mongol History (also available in paperback) is a clearly written treatment of the writing career of Rashid al-Din Fazlallah Hamadani (1248–1318), physician-cum-vizier to the...
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