Before Mongols there were Seljuks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seljuk_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seljuk_Empire. And fundamentalists of course played

Before Mongols there were Seljuks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seljuk_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seljuk_Empire. And fundamentalists of course played a major role. Good movie illustrating it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physician_(2013_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physician_(2013_film) The movie also points out the conduit role Jews played between Muslim and Cristian worlds and thus the results of the persecution.