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Rashid al-Din

Type Figure Region Persia Time 1247–1318 Also known as Rashid al-Din Hamdani、Rashid al-Din Tabib、Rashid al-Din Fadlallah、拉施特丁·哈马丹尼

Rashid al-Din (1247–1318), a Persian historian, physician, and statesman born in Hamadan;…

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  1. 1247–1256Hamadan · HamadanRashid al-Din was born in Hamadan in 1247, when most of Persia had already come under Mongol rule. His family was likely a Jewish medical family that had converted to Islam, and he received elementary education in Persian and Arabic in his early years.
  2. 1251–1260Hamadan · HamadanIn the 1250s Rashid al-Din spent ages 4 to 13 in Hamadan, continuing his studies in the relatively stable environment of the early Mongol Ilkhanate, learning the basics of medicine, astronomy, and historiography, laying the training for his later official and scholarly career. During this period Hulegu was establishing Ilkhanate rule in Western Asia.
  3. 1261–1295Tabriz · East AzerbaijanAfter the 1260s Rashid al-Din left Hamadan, entering the Ilkhanid court on the strength of his medical expertise and gradually taking part in administrative and diplomatic affairs. After the 1290s he became a confidant of Ghazan Khan, was appointed chancellor in 1298, and oversaw the compilation of the monumental Jami' al-Tawarikh covering the Mongol and Islamic worlds.

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