Ilkhanate

The Ilkhanate was a Mongol successor state established by Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, following the westward Mongol campaigns that destroyed Baghdad and extinguished the Abbasid Caliphate in 1258. It governed Persia, Iraq, and parts of Anatolia and the Caucasus from its capital at Tabriz. Initially shamanistic and Buddhist, the Ilkhanate gradually shifted towards Islam, with Ghazan Khan formally converting in 1295. The Ilkhans patronised Persian art and literature, contributing to a cultural renaissance. After the death of Abu Said in 1335 without an heir, the state dissolved into rival successor dynasties.

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