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Rashid-al-Din Hamadani

1247 - 1318

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Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb (Persian: رشیدالدین طبیب;‎ 1247–1318; also known as Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍlullāh Hamadānī, Persian: رشیدالدین فضل‌الله همدانی) was a statesman, historian, and physician in Ilkhanate Iran. Having converted to Islam from Judaism by the age of 30 in 1277, Rashid al-Din became the powerful vizier of Ilkhan Ghazan. He was commissioned by Ghazan to write the Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh, now considered the most important single source for the history of the Ilkhanate period and the Mongol Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rashid-al-Din Hamadani has received more than 358,216 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Rashid-al-Din Hamadani is the 1,006th most popular politician (up from 1,068th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Iran (down from 47th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Iranian Politician.

Rashid-al-din hamadani is most famous for writing the "Jami' al-tawarikh" or "Compendium of Chronicles." The "Jami' al-tawarikh" is a universal history of the world from the creation of the world to his own time.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rashid-al-Din Hamadani ranks 1,006 out of 19,576. Before him are Constans II, Andronikos II Palaiologos, Manuel II Palaiologos, Pietro Badoglio, Alexander Kolchak, and Isaac II Angelos. After him are Mohammad Mosaddegh, Asa of Judah, Humayun, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, Dzhokhar Dudayev, and Jerry Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1247, Rashid-al-Din Hamadani ranks 1. After him are Tekuder, John II, Count of Holland, Margaret of Cortona, Ulaghchi, Al-Hakim I, Yolande II, Countess of Nevers, and Obizzo II d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara. Among people deceased in 1318, Rashid-al-Din Hamadani ranks 1. After him are Mikhail of Tver, Margaret of France, Queen of England, Eric Magnusson, Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī, Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Henry I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, Thomas I Komnenos Doukas, and Edward Bruce.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Rashid-al-Din Hamadani ranks 49 out of 631. Before him are Farah Pahlavi (1938), Shapur I (150), Ardashir I (180), Cambyses I (-600), Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903), and Bahá'u'lláh (1817). After him are Mohammad Mosaddegh (1882), Doris Lessing (1919), Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932), Yazdegerd III (624), Shirin Ebadi (1947), and Ghazan (1271).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Rashid-al-Din Hamadani ranks 22. Before him are Antiochus III the Great (-241), Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956), Farah Pahlavi (1938), Shapur I (150), Ardashir I (180), and Cambyses I (-600). After him are Mohammad Mosaddegh (1882), Yazdegerd III (624), Ghazan (1271), Astyages (-700), Moshe Katsav (1945), and Cyaxares (-700).

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