[muawiyah]

Two or three different events at many centuries remove are confounded in a single paragraph there ~ Turks and Mongols are "different".

Still, the Mongols brought about the destruction of Arab rule in the Middle East.

[the Real fifi]

Yes*blush* But it is true the Mongols conquered most of Easrern Europe--west of Kiev (not quite to Vienna) but close..and still that part of the world did not devolve afterwards to what Moslem lands did.