694 AH
Ghazan, Mongol ruler of Persia, accepts Islam with thousands of his soldiers. Thirty-seven years after Hulagu burned Baghdad, his great-grandson prays toward Makkah.
How it touches Islam The conquerors were won over by the faith of the conquered: within a few decades most Mongol khans in the west were Muslim.
And you see the people entering into the religion of Allah in multitudes,
Quran 110:2
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