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To: swilhelm73

Actually I posted this simply because I found it interesting. I had thought all along that Genghis Khan was a Muslim. I wonder who converted the Mongols to Islam, and when.


13 posted on 04/08/2005 9:53:06 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: CarrotAndStick

IIRC, it was towards the end of the Crusading period most of the Mongol states converted to Islam.

There were conversations between the Christian powers and the Ilkhanate of Persia about an alliance versus the Muslims in the middle east. Even a small chance of the Ilkhanate converting to Christianity - one ruler married a Byzantine nobelwoman (well, she was a probably a bastard, but the Byzantines didn't see fit to mention that to her Mongol husband). The Ilkhanate of Persia, Golden Horde, and Chagatai Horde all converted to Islam eventually though.

When the Ilkhanate sacked Baghdad it caused serious animus with the Golden Horde to the north, so they had probably already converted by that point, or were about to.


32 posted on 04/08/2005 10:22:12 PM PDT by swilhelm73 (Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian)
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