At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Global / Diaspora
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 3/5 · Help complete it
In time
Summary
Ibn Khaldun describes the rise of the Tatars as an affair that, once their dominion swelled, sent "Hūlāgū b. Tūlī b. Genghis Khan from Khorasan to Baghdad; he took it and killed the caliph", ending the Abbasid caliphate at Baghdad in 656 1. He sums up the sweep by saying they absorbed all the kingdoms of Islam from Syria to Transoxiana 2.
The course of events
Ibn Khaldun relates that Hulagu marched in the year fifty and six hundred with massed armies until he reached and besieged Baghdad 3. In the caliphal sequence he notes that the Abbasid daʿwa moved to Egypt, where caliphs' sons were installed under Mamluk protection 4. He closes with the turn inside the conqueror's own house: "God guided Abaghā b. Hulagu to Islam and he became Muslim," and after him the Jochids and other Tatar kings 2.
For young visitors
A great army came from far away in Asia and captured many cities, including Baghdad the caliph's capital; years later many of the invaders' own descendants became Muslims.
Research notes
- Text from the harvested Ibar of Ibn Khaldun (Heliopolis 1957): pp. 952, 961, 2110, 2120, 2124. A near-contemporary historian's account of the main events; battle detail (ʿAyn Jālūt 658, the Iraqi sieges) and the fall of individual cities await collation with Mamluk-era sources (Ibn al-Athir, al-Maqrizi) not fully extracted on the drive.
Sources
- Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun , p.2110
- Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun , p.2120
- Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun , p.961
- Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun , p.2124
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Mongol invasions and conquests”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/mongol-invasions/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.