- Rashid
ad-Din was the author of the Jami' at-tawarikh.
- Rashid ad-Din was a Persian Jew who converted to
Islam and served at the Mongol court in Persia.
- Born in 1247 almost 30 years after Cingis Qan
conquered Persia. He served Ghazan, Oljeitu and
was executed in 1318 by Abu Sa'id.
- He assembled a record of the Mongol dynasty
called the "Jami' at-tawarikh".
- There are splendid translations in Russian but I
am unfamiliar with a full translation in English.
J. A. Boyle translated parts of it and I believe
he published some of it in:
- Boyle, J. A., ed. The Cambridge History
of Iran: Volume 5: The Saljuq and Mongol
Periods. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1968
- Russian translation
- Rashid-ad-din. "Sbornik
Letopisei,"
- Vol. 1 translated by L. A.
Khetagurov. Moscow-Leningrad
1952.
- Vol. 1/2 translated by Yu P.
Verkhovski Moscow-Leningrad 1960.
- Vol III translated by A. K.
Arends. Moscow-Leningrad 1946.
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