the family of Zangī Faryūmadī, who were entitled as viziers for five generations as asserted by Abu al-Qāsim Kāshānī – the historian of the court of Uljaitu – were in charge of premiership, administration and in high authority almost throughout the reign of the Mongols both before and after Hulagu Khan rose to power in Iran (654/1256). Along with serving the neoteric ruling system of the Il-Khanids, they were also capably open-handed in promotion of knowledge and cherishing poetry. The study of the lives of the celebrities of this family, which is undertaken in the present article, will somehow delineate this part of the Iranian history, i.e., the Il-Khanid era, and will also portray the cultural features of Khorasan in that era which is to be considered as the informal capital of the Mongol Il-Khanids.
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