Religious systems and beliefs of the Mongols in the seventh century AH / thirteenth century AD (historical study)

Abstract

This research, entitled (Religious Systems and Beliefs of the Mongols in the Seventh Hijri / Thirteenth Century A.D. (Historical Study), and the research included three sections. The first topic continued the religious perceptions and beliefs of the Mongols before Islamic conversion, and focused on the fact that the Mongolian society was a pagan polytheistic society in which it spread. Myths and deviant beliefs that do not believe in God, and whose fate is controlled by religious leaders called the shamans, who charted the path of the features of the pagan religious Mongol society. Religious beliefs and postulates towards embracing the Christian religion, especially his orientation towards the Nestorian sect, and the one who worked on paving the Mongol society’s path towards believing in this religion was Sultan Hulagu, who worked to consolidate its pillars by building Christian churches and monasteries in different parts of the Mongol state, and the third topic came under the title (Islamic religion, the embrace of belief and religion among the Mongols), after the Mughal society embraced all religions and sects from Paganism to Buddhism, and from monotheism to Christianity, the Mongols embraced Nestorian Christianity, and this matter allowed Pope Innocent IV to communicate with them, but the majority of the Mongols after that adhered to religion and Islamic law as a method to follow to correct the mistakes of those religions, especially the deviant ones, and to adopt it as a religion Officially in the Mongol state since the beginning of the seventh century AH / the thirteenth century AD, and the sources and references of the research varied between Arabic and English books, letters and university theses, as well as research and studies that contributed to the addition of scientific material to this research, and God bless.