Balkh, Cities This source names Mongols directly: "Balkh, in ancient Bactria in what is now northern Afghanistan, is among the oldest cities of Central and South Asia and was traditionally called Umm al-Bilad, the Mother of Cities, in Islamic-era..."
This source names Mongols directly: "decades, this time reaching ordinary Mongols rather than remaining a court religion alone, and became the dominant faith of the Mongol lands, a position it held for more than three centuries until..."
This source names Mongols directly: "lamas serving them among the Buryat Mongols east of Lake Baikal in Siberia."
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This source names Mongols directly: "Berke, khan of the Golden Horde, personally converted to Islam at Bukhara in 1252, the first Mongol ruler to do so."
This source names Mongols directly: "Devin DeWeese's Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde is a scholarly study, published by Pennsylvania State University Press, of how Islam was received, narrated and remembered on the..."
This source names Mongols directly: "La Religion des Turcs et des Mongols, Jean-Paul Roux's 1984 study from Payot, is a standard scholarly French language reference on the pre-conversion religion of the Turkic and Mongolic peoples by a..."
This source names Mongols directly: "Mona Hassan is a scholar of Islamic history, and this Princeton University Press book is her transregional history of Muslim mourning for and memory of the abolished caliphate, tracing responses..."
This source names Mongols directly: "The Maragheh Observatory was built in 1259 in northwestern Iran under the patronage of the Mongol Ilkhanid ruler Hulagu and directed by the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, who had persuaded..."
This source names Mongols directly: "Mazar-i-Sharif ("noble shrine") in northern Afghanistan takes its name from the Blue Mosque at its center, the Shrine of Hazrat Ali, reputed by local and Shia tradition to hold the tomb of Ali ibn..."
This source names Mongols directly: "Led by the future King Edward I of England, then still Lord Edward, the Ninth Crusade arrived at Acre in 1271 as the last major crusading expedition to the Crusader states of the medieval period."
This source names Mongols directly: "Pochayiv, in western Ukraine's Ternopil region, grew up around the Dormition Pochayiv Lavra, ranked as the second most significant monastery in Ukrainian Orthodox Christianity after the Kyiv..."
This source names Mongols directly: "the Secret History of the Mongols, the Irk Bitig), a continuously revised, community edited tertiary encyclopedia entry with no named author, hence the lower tier, though useful for these documented..."
This source names Mongols directly: "Black Faith, or Shamanism among the Mongols, his 1846 dissertation at Kazan University, is the earliest scholarly study of Mongol shamanic religion written by a scholar raised within the Buryat..."
This source names Mongols directly: "The Dai Honzon of 1274, also called the Mannen Kugo Honzon, is a calligraphic mandala inscribed by Nichiren Shonin himself on the first day of December 1274, shortly after word reached Japan of the..."
This source names Mongols directly: "A ruling by the Hanbali jurist Ibn Taymiyya, issued in answer to a question about the legal status of Mardin, a town in what is now southeastern Turkey that remained under Mongol Ilkhanate rule with..."
This source names Mongols directly: "second introduction among the Mongols."
This source names Mongols directly: "Hulegu Khan's Mongol army besieged and took Baghdad between late January and 10 February 1258, ending five centuries of Abbasid rule as the caliphate's own political center."
This source names Mongols directly: "The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century, in Igor de Rachewiltz's annotated English translation published by Brill in 2004, is the standard scholarly..."
This source names Mongols directly: "The Tibetan Buddhist canon read in classical Tibetan rather than through Mongol or Chinese intermediary translation, founded by Alexander Csoma de Koros's 1834 grammar and dictionary built from..."
This source names Mongols directly: "By the end of the thirteenth century, the Church of the East was the most geographically extensive Christian communion in the world, with roughly two hundred bishoprics stretching from the..."
This source names Mongols directly: "A reference entry on Umai, the Turkic and Mongol guardian deity of birth and infants named in the Old Turkic inscriptions of Mongolia."