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Rashid al-Din Hamadani. 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 ...
The Mongol Ilkhans and their vizier Rashid al-Din, that Hamadan was actually an ancestral family home, and not the town Rashid al-Din in fact grew up in. Krawulsky suggests that Rashid al-Din may instead have grown up in Qazvin, as reported by Abu ‘l-Ghazi Bahador Khan ca. 1726. Source: Dorothea!Krawulsky,! The Mongol Ilkhans and
- Sienna Z. Jackson
- 2012
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 ...
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RASHID AL-DIN. RASHID 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. We do not have any knowledge of the early periods of his life until we hear of him entering the service of the Ilkhan ...
14. The genealogical table was a relatively new device at this period. Rashid al-Din was the first to use it as a narrative device and make it an independent genre; see Binbaş, “Structure and Function of the Genealogical Tree,” 487; his long article gives an overview of its use in the Islamic lands in late medieval times. 15.
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Sep 17, 2016 · The Successors of Genghis Khan, by Rashid al-Din, translated from Persian by John Andrew Boyle (New York, 1971), in 377 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages, with a glossary, map, and genealogical tables. This is a medieval history of the khans from Ogedei through Temur, 1229-1307.
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. It was originally written for the Mongol Ilkhan of Iran Ghazan Khan (d. 1304) but was finally presented to his brother and successor...
