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Article: The Chaghadaids and Islam: the conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331-34).
- Article from:
- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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TARMASHIRIN, the CHAGHADAID KHAN whose conversion paved the way to the overall Islamization of the Chaghadaids, is an enigmatic figure. While Arabic, Persian, and Turkic sources stress the importance of his islamization to the establishment of Islam among the Mongols of the Chaghadaid Khanate, (1) some of these same sources simultaneously suggest that the rebellion against Tarmashirin that resulted in his depositon was caused by his Islamic policies. (2) Was Tarmashirin, then, both the one who brought Islam to the Chaghadaids and the victim of his own success?
Moreover, despite the stress on Tarmashirin's reign as the one in which Islam became firmly rooted in ...