Why was the conversion of the Turks to Islam important for the future of the Muslim world? Why were the Turks attracted to Islam?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Turks attraction to Islam
1. not clear why Turks generally were attracted to Islam
2. needed no new religious justification for warfare
3. first Turkic people to subscribe to Islam were the Karkhanids
a. made the move as a result of the favorable impression they derived from raiding Islamic territory
B. Conversion had consequences for the future
1. Turks would bring to the Islamic world a vital infusion of manpower and expertise in war
2. Altigin, a Turk who had adopted Islam while serving as a slave in Persia, founded at Ghazni in Afghanistan a Muslim state that was to exert great influence in the future
3. Seljuk, a Turkic chief who dreamed ofconquering the world, ruled a small state, cobbled together by conquest, in Central Asia
a. decision to become a Muslim was of enormous significance
b. his descendants supplied some of the Islamic world's most effective frontiersmen
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