The Mongols were actually quite tolerant of other faiths, and they easily absorbed Islamic beliefs and practices into their own shamanistic spiritual system, creating a kind of hybrid of Sunni Islam and Eastern paganism. This created a dilemma for Muslims under Mongol rule, many of whom did not know how to respond to the conversion of their new and unfamiliar masters. Now that the Mongols had become Muslims, must they be obeyed as God’s regents on earth? Should the same people who only a few years before had killed millions of Muslims, enslaved their children, plundered their property, burned
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