Making Mongol History

Explores Rashid al-Din’s impact on seven centuries of historical writing A narrative of early Ilkhanid history accessible to students and useful to scholarsA new approach to the biography of one of the most influential figures in medieval Islamic historyIncludes appendices describing the structure, sources and illustrative programs of the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh and cataloguing all known manuscripts of the workShows the relationship between early modern Persian and modern European structures of knowle