Dr Lucy Deacon explores
the history of the substantial fragment of Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh, by Rashīd al-Dīn (vizier to the Ilkhanids), held by the
University of Edinburgh's Heritage Collections (Or…
Rashid
al-Din’s Jami‘ al-Tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) is considered the
first universal history ever written. Edinburgh University's Heritage Collections preserves an…