Ghiyathu'd-Din

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Ghiyathu'd-Din bin (ibn, ben) Rashid'ud-Din Fad‘lu'llah (died 1336) was Ilkhanate politician, and was the son of Rashid al-Din, a scientist and historian who was born to a Jewish family in Hamadan but converted to Islam while serving under the Ilkhans.

He was the mayor of the Ilkhanate palace, when the era of the sultan Abu Sa'id. And he was a patron of literature.

He was murdered because of the struggle of successor.

[edit] Works

• Great Mongol (Demotte) Shah nameh (probably made for him)
• The Literary History of Persia, Volume 3 (Edward G. Browne)
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  • 3:25
• Persian Poetry Poets of the Timurid Period
• Detroit Institute of Arts Permanent Collection - Ancient - Ardashir Battling Bahman, Son of Ardawan
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[edit] References

• E.G. Browne. Literary History of Persia. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-7007-0406-X
• Jan Rypka, History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K

[edit] See also

• List of Persian poets and authors
• Persian literature
• Persian Jews