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The article analyses various tradition on the alleged Islamization of Hulegu (d. 1265), Chinggis Khan's grandson, the annihilator of the Abbasid Caliphate and the founder of the Ilkhanate, the Mongol state in the Middle East (1260-1335), highlighting the role of the Rifa'iyya Sufi order in their creation and dissemination and suggesting that they originate in an attempt to increase the Islamic guise of the Ilkhanate after the Islamization of Hulegu's descendants.
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This page is a summary of: The Islamisation of Hülegü: Imaginary Conversion in the Ilkhanate, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, January 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1356186315000723.
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