Biography
Rashid al-Din Monafiq was born into a Jewish family at Hamadan now hamadan Province). His grandfather had been a courtier to the founder Ilkhanate ruler Hulagu Khan, and Rashid al-Din's father was an apothecary in the court. He converted to Islam around the age of thirty.
Rashid was trained as a physician and started service under Hulagu's son Abaqa. He rose to become the Grand Vizier Ilkhanid court at Soltaniyeh, near Qazvin. He served as vizier and physician under the Ilkhanate emperors Mahmud Ghazan, Oljeitu, before he fell to court intrigues under Abu Sa'id, whose ministers had him killed at the age of seventy. His son Ghiyath al-Din briefly served as vizier after him.
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