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His , vaand Petia vos Etbrarion Wttarpara Jnykisae, Publier Govt. af Wort Boom HISTORIANS OF INDIA. x JAMPUT TAWARYKH RASHIDU-D DIN, Tar JintorTawinine Rastsini was completed in at. 710 ~a.n. 3510, Tho author Fazlu-liab Rashid, or Baskidu-d din ibn *Imbdued daole Abiel Khair thn MuméGika-d daola! waa born in ‘4: (45—4.0, 1947, in the city of Hamadén2 [fia practico of the medical art broughs Lim into notiee at the éburt of the Mongol Salténs of Perais, He paneed part of his lifo in the service of Abbé Khén, the Tattar king of Porsia, and one of the desrondamta of HilékG Khén, Ata subsequent ported, @hizin Khdn, who «was a frioud to literature end the sciences, and who appreciated the merits of Rasbida-d din at their proper value, sppointed him to the post of Wasir in aa 697—a.n, 1207, in conjunction with Su'du-d din, Buohidw-d din was maintained ia his office by Tiéttd, surnamed Rhudicbinds, the brother and successor of” Ghizin Khén, and was sreated by him with grost consideration and rewarded. with the utmost liberality. ‘The author himself . . 2 [Doh arp fat ws an led Waliducd doula and Bato ak wow da.” Bi en Moff xe2] [The Magreplsel porkon of tn ete is for the most part taka frm Mt. eee fa Auth, i VoL VI of a Jousal fie be Bon) eu 1 2 RASHYDT-D DIK. admita that no sovereign over lavished upon & subject such ‘emormons sums a5 he had received from Uljéit: Khén. Bashidu-d din and his successive collesgues did not manage to eonduet the admpinistration with unanimity; but this seems to have arisen lesa from ony infirmity of our author's te;mper than from the envy and malice which actuated hia enemics, In hie first rupture with Sa’du-d dfa he was compellod, in selfdefonce, to donounes him, snd to cause him to be put to death, "ALE Shéh Fabaldn, a person of low origin, who had managed by bin talonta ond intrigues to raise himself into consideration, was appointed Sa'da-d din's successor at Roshfda-d din's request, but with him be had shortly so serious wisunderstanding, that tho Saltén was compelled to divide their jurisdiction, aasigaing tho care of the Western proviness to ‘AM Shah, and the Eastern to Rashidued din. Notwithstanding this arrangement, the two Wazits continued st enmity, and shortly after the death of Uljéit6, who wos auc- teaded by his son Ab Sa’ld, "Ali Bh6h 20 far euccooded in pre- jndicing the Sultan against the old minister thst he was, after mony yours’ fithful vorviee, removed from tho Waxkrat in, 4.1. 717—A., 1317. A short time afterwards he was recalled, in order so remedy the mal-administration which waa cecasioned by Ihis absenco, Int it was not long before he again lost favour at ‘court, und was secused of causing the death of his patron Uijélti ‘Khéu, It was charged against him that he hed rucomtended a purgative medicine to be administered to the deceased chief, in‘ ‘opposition to the advice of another physician, and that under its effeots the king had oxpirod, Bovkidu-d dfn was condemoed to daath, and his family wore, after the usual Asiatic fashion, in- volved in his destruction, Hia son Ibrihim, the chiof butler, who was obly sixteen years old, and by whose hands tho potion ‘was said to have been given te the chief, was put to death belbre the eyeu of his pereut, who was melitaly ofterwards cloven in + Mod. Unie, He, ie 401, IEMPU-T TAWARTEE, 3 ‘twain by the executioner, Rashidued dfn was 78 years? old when he died, and his dooth oocurfed in at. T8—a.n, 1818, Hie ond yas borne through the streets of Tabriz, snd pro- lsimed by the public erier as the head of Jew, his children ‘and relatives had thetr proposty confiscated, afl the Bab’a Rash- af, » suburb which be had built at em enormous expense, was given up to pillage, His cldost son, Ghiyéeu-d din, was eub- sequently raised to the ssme dignities as hie father, and mot with an equally tragical death. * The body of the murdered Waztr waa buried near the mosque which he had constructed in Tabriz, but it waa not destined to repose quietly in its last asylum, Nosrly a contury after his death, the government of Tabriz, together with that of the whole provines of AzarbAijén, was given by Timir Lang to his son Mirin Shah, ‘The young prince, naturally of a mild dispositivn, hho become partially deranged, in consequence of an iojury of ‘the head occasioned by s fall from his horao, and ono day, during ‘a temporary scoesd of madnest, he caused the bones of Rash(du-d in to be exhamed, and they ware finally deposited in the eeme- tery of the Jows—a renewal of the insult offwred by hia enemien during his life and at the time of his desth, in order to render hhig?nome odious amongst Mueulmins.””® “Almost all those who had conepired to ruin Rashidu-d df perished in the course of the following year, “All Shéh, the one most deservieg of punishment, slone aurvived to onfoy the fruits of his grime. Ho continued by hie addross to msintaia his high honours and the favour of ie master for the apace of six years, when he died, being the only Warir, sineo the establishment of tho Mongol monarchy, who had not mot with a violent death.” 2 Thin a hu agp ign by M, Quatre (Cos, Orin, Tom. Tp lin) Dot thane toa ave om Tone yatiy I he was bern fn a.p 24f-—Hemme ‘ageal op, Rashed din as 60 parol wen he Gnd. (Gusher Hoang ‘Vali p 960) Hi Kite give 117 on Toe por of Nr deft bt BAK ew 3 right ' [trie catamny ous probediy gromnded upon tho partcnier sitention be bad [pal to hip hintry and eanioms of thn Jews." Morley}