Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi

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The Mongol invasion can be considered as one of the most interesting
events in generalWorld history, particularly in Islamic history. As a
result of it, almost all Turkish Muslimsliving in Central Asia had to
move to Anatolia, where they had established the OttomanEmpire. The
relation of Mongols with the Ottoman Turks had been based on the
enmity.However, in the years before the World War I, due to the spread
of the West currentsamong the Ottoman intelligentsia, there appeared
some studies dealing with therelationship between the Turks and the
Mongols, and the resemblance of these twonations in linguistics and
cultural area. Some Muslim historians, disappointed from mostof these
studies, and in turn they also published some articles about this
matter. Taheer al-Mawlawi, in particular, issued a series of article
entitled as “to the Muslim soldier”. Inthese articles, he gathered most
of the accounts that had been recorded by Muslimhistorians, and he also
cited the Mongol cruelty and collected them under the title “Cengizve
Hülagû Mezalimi” (The cruelties of Genghis and Hulagu), [1906,
Istanbul]. His work isregarded as a good concise work on Mongol
invasion, in particular against the IslamicWorld.