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Why did the Golden Horde not want to fully convert to Islam by successfully stabilizing the regime by Muslims?

Buddhist fables 2025-04-17

Why did the Golden Horde not want to fully convert to Islam by successfully stabilizing the regime by Muslims?

From the late 11th to the late 13th century AD, it may be the darkest two hundred years for Islam.First, European Christians launched the famous "crusade", and then there was a fatal blow from Mongolia.

Under the continuous attacks of the Crusaders for nearly two hundred years, many cities in the Islamic world have been transformed into ashes and the countryside has disappeared.However, when the Mongols rose in the East, they rode fast horses and scimitars and hit wherever they went.The mosques in Bukhara, Central Asia were regarded as Mongolian stables;The people of Samarkand were either slaughtered or plundered as slaves;Khwarezm was even erased from the map.

However, by the end of the 13th century, the situation had undergone tremendous changes.The last group of crusaders were driven out of the sea and the descendants of Genghis Khan, who attempted to destroy Islam, all turned into devout Muslims in less than 200 years.The Golden Horde took the lead in Buying Islam as the state religion and became the guardian god of Islam.

Badu, the founder of the Golden Horde, is not a Muslim. Just because he has better implemented Genghis Khan's policy of "treating all religions equally and not distinguishing each other", he has become the best friend of Muslims.Persian historians evaluated it as:

“（Badu is a king without religious belief: he only believes in the gods and does not blindly take refuge in this sect or that religion.He has given countless alms and his kindness is infinite.The kings of all countries, princes from all over the world, and everyone else went to pay their respects to him. Just before transporting the tributes they had accumulated for many years into the treasury, he had already rewarded them all to the Mongols, Muslims and all those present, regardless of the amount of tribute or the amount..."

No matter how many praises Muslim scholars say about Ba, Ba is still a loyal believer of shamanism and is equally friendly to other religions in the conquering area. For example, Christians such as Archbishop Roth, priests, monks, etc. can be exempted from commercial tax and tribute tax when reading it occasionally.

However, Badu's tolerance gave Islam a legitimate status and a soil for spread. In this sense, Badu's contribution to Islam was huge. After all, before the arrival of the Mongols, many regions had already accepted Islam.

After Badu's death, Mongke, the great Mongolian Khan, appointed Badu's son Salida to succeed him.Sarida was a devout Christian, but he died of illness on his way back to Salai (the capital of the Golden Horde) to take over the throne. Mengge immediately appointed the youngest son of Badu to succeed to the throne.Unexpectedly, in the same year, Ulaheich died of illness again in the Khanate, so the Khanate of the Golden Horde finally fell into the hands of his younger brother Beergo of Badu.

Belgo's fiefdom was close to Persia. Not only were the people under his rule mostly Muslims, but he also held 30,000 Muslim troops.Sarida and Ulaheich died too strangely. Chinese and foreign historians believe that Belgo may have used the power of Islam to conspire to seize power.There are many examples of Mongolian princes and princes seizing power through religious forces in history, such as the later Month of the Golden Horde.

When Mengge Khan was reigned, his brother Xulagu launched the third western expedition in Mongolia.Hulagu's wife is a Christian. When the Mongolian army captured Baghdad, it carried out an inhumane massacre of Muslims and joined forces with Christianity to fight against Islamic forces.After Hulagu captured Persia, he immediately sent troops to Syria, hoping to open the road to Egypt.

The Mamluk dynasty in Egypt felt a great threat, and the Egyptian Sultan chose to form an alliance with Belgo of the Golden Horde.In 1262, Belgo's army defeated Hulagu in the Caucasus region, forcing its conquest of Syria to fail.After the Golden Horde emerged as a defender of Muslims, the capital Salay attracted people from various Islamic sects, thus accelerating the Islamization of the Golden Horde.

After Yuejibe Khan successfully usurped the throne by relying on religious forces, Islam officially became the state religion of the Golden Horde.

Although the Golden Horde converted to Islam earlier than the Ir Khanate and the Chahatai Khanate, their Islamization was the least. The herders on the grassland still believed in immortality, which was crucial for the Golden Horde's national destiny for more than two hundred years.

In the early days of the regime, the Golden Horde gradually consolidated its rule by relying on Islamic power, but converting to Islam was limited to the rulers and nobles in the city.Because the herdsmen on the grassland are still loyal to the tradition of the fighting nation, this allows the descendants of Genghis Khan to appear as a conqueror in the situation of complete collapse of the West.

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