The Mongol Shock
الصدمة المغولية
A trail through the catastrophe and its transformation: Baghdad's fall, Ayn Jalut, the khanates' conversion.
At a glance
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
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Walk this pathway
5steps · 30min · newcomer · student
The advance
1219–1256: Genghis Khan's heirs erase Khwarazm and Persia.
Baghdad falls
1258: Hulagu kills the caliph; the Abbasid era ends.
اجتياح التتار بغداد وقتل المستعصم · Baghdad · Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom
Ayn Jalut
1260: Qutuz and Baybars halt the advance.
The khanates convert
Berke, Ozbeg, Timur: the conquerors enter the faith.
The Jochid state of the Dasht (Golden Horde) · Timurid Empire
The revival
Ibn Khaldun reads fall and rise in asabiyya.
Do first:: Islam in Thirty Minutes
Overview
A path through the greatest catastrophe in the history of Islam and its transformation: the fall of Baghdad, then 'Ayn Jalut, then the conversion of the khanates, then revival.
Sources
- Wikidata
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islam.museum contributors. “The Mongol Shock”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/exhibits/path-mongol-shock/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.