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Rashid al-Din Completes the Jami al-Tawarikh
Around 1307, Persian historian and court minister Rashid al-Din Hamadani completed the Jami al-Tawarikh, a universal history in Persian covering crea…
Timeline
- 1307Tabriz · IranWith Öljaitü's support, Rashid al-Din gathered multilingual sources in Chinese, Tibetan, Arabic and others, completing the main compilation of the Jami al-Tawarikh at Rab'-e Rashidi. The work contains histories of the world's peoples, the genealogy of Genghis Khan and his descendants, and includes miniature illustrations, representing the cultural peak of the Ilkhanate.
Sources
- Jami al-Tawarikh — Rashid al-Din Hamadani (1307)
- Rashid al-Din and the Making of History in Mongol Iran — Stefan Kamola (2019)