NEW ANALYSIS FROM GHAZAN'S SHIITE TENDENeY

Year 2011, Volume: 15 Issue: 2, 277 - 286, 15.12.2011

MEHDİ Abbadi

Abstract

Ghazan, fallawing that embraced Islam, became Ilkhan with the patranage of
Iranians. To rule all Muslims in his territory, both Sunnis and Shies, he preferred tolerable
behavior with them. Although, he acknowledged Sunnism as the majority religion, in the
meantime, favored sympathetic attitude to Shiites. But, adversarial relations with Mamluks
of Egypt, as the main riva! of Ilkhans and ghazan to rule to whole Islamic world, that have
attempted to show themselves as the defenders of Sunni Islam by supporting neminal
Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, was main reason that ghazan had to have tendeney for Shiite
beliefs. By this politic, he deliberated to fınd base for legitimacy of his rule and could to
religious-political cantest and compete with Mamluks. 

Keywords

Religious Circumstances of Iran, Shiite, Ghazan, Ilkhanids