Öljaitü

Öljaitü (1282–1316), born Khar-banda and later called Muhammad Khodabandeh, was the eighth Ilkhan of Persia, ruling from 1304. The son of Arghun and brother of Ghazan, he eliminated rival princes, was crowned in 1304, and later led an unsuccessful invasion of Mamluk Syria.

Raised a Buddhist and briefly baptised a Christian, he ended as a Shia Muslim. With his vizier Rashid al-Din, compiler of the Jami al-Tawarikh, he built the new capital Soltaniyeh, where he died in 1316 and was succeeded by his son Abu Sa'id.