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The Mongol Īlkhāns and their Vizier Rashīd al-Dīn

Any student of Mongol history will be familiar with the name and historical writing of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318). In the Encyclopedia of Islam entry on Rashid al-Din, David Morgan calls his Jāmeʿ al-Tavārikh (Collected Histories), “undoubtedly the most important single historical source for the Mongol Empire as a whole.” Despite the importance of Rashid al-Din’s Mongol history, or perhaps because of it, vast regions of his prodigious scholarly output have never been mapped, or even adequately explored. Dorothea Krawulsky’s “collection of closely related articles” (p. 7), engages many aspects of Rashid al-Din’s active career as vizier, court historian, theologian, and general ideological and administrative standard bearer to the Mongol Ilkhāns Ghāzān (1295–1304) and Uljāytu (1304–16). These articles are littered with important insights that advance the study of Rashid al-Din, the Ilkhānate, and the Mongol Empire in general. Because of its origins in a series of articles, however, the book lacks overall cohesion; it frequently repeats and occasionally contradicts itself. While the author promises a later, more extensive biographical study of Rashid al-Din, some of her other observations about Rashid al-Din’s theological and historiographical writing hold greater promise for further exposition. The first section, titled “The Time,” is an updated version of five articles that first appeared in German in 1989. In them, Krawulsky turns to Rashid al-Din’s