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Rashid al-Din,the first Universal Historian
A Persian servant of the Mongol Khans wrote the first really global history Ky J. J. Saunders
Reprinted with kind permission by Mrs.
Saunders* widow of the late J. J. Saunders
which appeared in “ History Today ” July 1971.
By courtesy of the Bibliotheque Nationale
Ghazan Khan, Ruler of Persia, 1295-1304, at the
capture of Nishapur; from a manuscript of
Rashid al-Din
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