The Motivations that Cause Scientific Modernization During the Ilkhanids Period

In the first years of the Mongol invasion, science and civilization stagnated, but scientists and ministers such as Khajeh Rashid al-Din Fazlullah Hamedani during the Ilkhanids period established the Rabi-e Rashidi Scientific Center in Tabriz and concentrated the sciences and scientists of different lands in it. There was a new era of prosperity in the education and research of various sciences in Islamic civilization.

The present study aims to investigate the motivations that cause scientific modernization and revitalization by establishing an important educational and research center by relying on a case study of the Rabi-e Rashidi Scientific Center of Khajeh Rashid al-Din Fazlullah Hamedani.

The method of this research is descriptive-analytical and the research tool is fishery and it is mostly based on first-hand sources in history and civilization and the works of Khajeh Rashid al-Din.

In the study of scientific modernity in the Ilkhanate period, with the establishment of the Rabi-e Rashidi Scientific Center, the role of spiritual, scientific, political-religious and economic motives is very prominent.

The Ilkhanids played a key role in motivating some scientific development. The inner motivations of Khajeh Rashid al-Din Fazlullah Hamedani also led to the modernization of education and research and the establishment of the important and effective scientific center of Rabi-e Rashidi. Undoubtedly, in any period, if there are public incentives in the people of the society and the rulers also strengthen these incentives, the means of progress of the nation and the government of that society will be provided.