At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In time
Summary
Al-Suyuti mentions that Ghazan ibn Arghun ibn Abagha ibn Hulagu, king of the Tatars, embraced Islam in 694 AH. The people rejoiced at this, and Islam spread in his army. 2
Ibn al-Imad, in "Shadharat al-Dhahab," quotes Sadr al-Din Ibrahim ibn Hamawiya al-Juwayni that Ghazan embraced Islam at his hand through his deputy Nawruz, and that it was a memorable day. 3 In the Arna'ut edition the report is given under the year ninety-five. It mentions that Ibn Hamawiya came to the hadith scholar al-Hafiz al-Dhahabi in Syria seeking hadith, and told him of this. 4
The Shadharat also mentions that Egypt suffered a severe famine and a plague in the same year, in which people ate carrion, and that the funerals reached one thousand five hundred in a single day. 3
The account of Ghazan is drawn from these two books alone, and the detail needs an additional source.
Connections
- Had participant
- قازان بن أرغون بن أبغا بن هولاكو· Sadr al-Din al-Hamuwi, shaykh al-shuyukh
People and things also explored
Arghun Khan· قازان بن أرغون بن أبغا بن هولاكو· Sadr al-Din al-Hamuwi, shaykh al-shuyukh
Sources
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 731
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.731
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p.437
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p.748
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islam.museum contributors. “Ghazan ibn Arghun, Ruler of the Tatars, Embraces Islam”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/ghazan-islam-694/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.