Rashid al-Din: The First Universal Historian

J.J. Saunders describes how a Persian servant of the Mongol Khans wrote the first truly global history.

J.J. Saunders | Published in History Today Volume 21 Issue 7 July 1971

Blue Mosque
Masjid-i Kabud, Blue Mosque, Tabriz, Iran, photograph by Antoin Sevruguin, fl. 1880s-1930. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institute.

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