Tâhirü’l-Mevlevî ve CENGİZ VE HÜLÂGÛ MEZÂLİMİ Adlı Eseri

Taheer al-Mawlawi and his work “The Cruelties of Genghis and Hulagu” The Mongol invasion can be considered as one of the most interesting events in general World history, particularly in Islamic history. As a result of it, almost all Turkish Muslims living in Central Asia had to move to Anatolia, where they had established the Ottoman Empire. 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 currents among the Ottoman intelligentsia, there appeared some studies dealing with the relationship between the Turks and the Mongols, and the resemblance of these two nations in linguistics and cultural area. Some Muslim historians, disappointed from most of 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”. In these articles, he gathered most of the accounts that had been recorded by Muslim historians, and he also cited the Mongol cruelty and collected them under the title “Cengiz ve Hülâgû Mezalimi” (The cruelties of Genghis and Hulagu), [1906, Istanbul]. His work is regarded as a good concise work on Mongol invasion, in particular against the Islamic World.