The Religion Manifestation in the Mongol Era Society

The Religion Manifestation in the Mongol Era Society

The religious situation of Iran faced with major challenges in the seventh and eighth centuries AH contemporaneous with the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries AD. Tatar tribes led by Genghis Khan had been succeeded to occupy completely east of Islamic lands (darol Islam) to Shamat and Egyptian border, by the use of disappointing and frustrating spirits dominating the society at that time. Therefore, the society had faced with severe social crisis, the sample of which is completely clear in the religion situation of that time. Although, at the time of Mongols, and especially the centralized government of the Ilkhanids- by the tolerance of the Mongolian, Islam was greatly expanded, and many scholars appeared in the fields of jurisprudence, mysticism, and theology, the progression was in another way in the hearts of the masses of people. Due to the cultural disintegration, a kind of protracted hypocrisy and pretence had been rooted among the people. Hypocrisy had become the dominant aspect of people's many everyday behaviors. Furthermore, the appearance of superstition was regarded as another aspect of this cultural and social disintegration. Nevertheless, one of the main reasons of this matter should be analyzed through the people's look at the issue of fate. Iranians- most of the statesmen, troops, and urban classes were firmly believed who acted completely passively. This issue facilitated the Mongol's invasion, and increased this kind of proceeds when they were dominated. 

Shideh / N. Azimi, M. Sadeghani