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 the Jewish scientist and historian Rashid al-Din.

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)
  • 3:17
  • 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