Sufis and Shamans: Some Remarks on the Islamization of the Mongols in the Ilkhanate
Abstract Some scholars have argued that sufis, Muslim mystics, played a decisive role in converting the Mongols in Iran to Islam in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, mainly because of the similarity between the extreme sufis (the dervishes) and the shamans of the traditional Mongol religion....
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Brill
1999
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Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient
Year: 1999, Volume: 42, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-46 |
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