Rashid-al-Din Hamadani

Rashid al-Din Tabib also Rashid al-Din Fadhl-allah Hamadani (1247–1318) , was a Persian statesman, historian and physician. He was born into a Persian Jewish family from Hamedan (Hamadani). A follower of Islam by the time he was 30, Rashid al-Din became the powerful vizier (prime minister) of the Ilkhan Mahmud Ghazan. Later he was commissioned by Ghazan to write the Jami al-Tawarikh, now considered the most important single source for the history of the Ilkhanid period and the Mongolian Empire. He retained his position as a vizier until 1316. After being charged with poisoning the Ilkhanid king Oljeitu, he was executed in 1318.