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> The Muslims greatly suffered under the Mongol Empire's trail of destruction Arabs did. The ottoman turks, muslim persians, etc benefited greatly. If the mong
by qiskit 5y ago
> The Muslims greatly suffered under the Mongol Empire's trail of destruction
Arabs did. The ottoman turks, muslim persians, etc benefited greatly. If the mongol empire was so destructive, we wouldn't have had the ottoman empire - the greatest muslim empire in history.
> and the atrocities the latter committed have been well documented.
It's absurdly exaggerated.
> Yet, it is a great page in our history to have dealt the first major blow to them in the Battle of Ain Jalut[1], saving the world from God knows what horrid things they would have continued had they been left unchallenged.
What horrid things did they do? Other than convert to islam and entrench islam in the places they conquered?
As opposed to the arabs who wiped out non-islamic religions in areas they conquered. All you have to do is look at iran/persia. The arabs conquered persia and wiped out zoraostrians. The mongols conquered persia and didn't wipe out islam. And if it wasn't for the mongols, the islamic world would have been conquered in the 1200s rather than in the 1800s. After all, it was the arrival of the mongols in the middle east than ended the crusades.
- azth 5y ago> Arabs did. The ottoman turks, muslim persians, etc benefited greatly. They're all Muslims. Islam establishes that ethnicity does not matter. Arabs did not wipe out local populations, you'd want to look at the Crusades and Zionists for that.
- qiskit 5y ago> They're all Muslims. Islam establishes that ethnicity does not matter. Yes I know. That's my point. The arabic domination of the muslim world was ended by the mongols. The mongol empire helped the rise of the ottoman and persian empire. In other words, the mongol empire was bad for arab muslims but great for turkic and persian muslims. > Arabs did not wipe out local populations, you'd want to look at the Crusades and Zionists for that. Neither did the mongols. That's my point. But the arabs wiped out local cultures and religions. Which the mongols did not. They actually safeguarded local cultures and religions. It's why so much mongol empire remained so diverse racially, ethnically, culturally, religiously, etc.
- azth 5y ago> The arabic domination of the muslim world was ended by the mongols. Islam was never exclusive to the Arabs. One of the main tenants of Islam is that there is no difference between Arab and non-Arab, black and white, etc. > But the arabs wiped out local cultures and religions No they did not. Even Christian and Jewish academics and historians admit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc6yXYR01Vg&t=5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc6yXYR01Vg&t=5s You can also see how cultures who converted to Islam preserved their traditions quite well (e.g. in the sub-Indian peninsula, far East Asia, etc.).