Late Middle Ages · Middle East · Politics
1318
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.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.