Rashid al-Din executed in Tabriz

1318

The great vizier and universal historian was accused of poisoning the Ilkhan Öljaitü, dragged through Tabriz, and beheaded at seventy. His endowed quarter, the Rab-i Rashidi - a university, hospital, and manuscript workshop that had employed hundreds of scholars and scribes - was looted. The murder silenced the most cosmopolitan intellect the Mongol world had produced.