Why did Turks pick up islam?

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In the beginning many of the Turkic groups were actually against the Muslims, choosing religions like Tengriinism or Judaism.

The early Turks reverted to Islam so that they could gain political support from the Abbassid Caliphate against the Kievan Rus.

Secondly was the Battle of Talas, where the Muslims invaded Oezbekistan and Turkmenistan. For some reason the Chinese started slaughtering the Turks in the region, so the Muslims and Turks fought them off together. Eventually winning and reverting the Turkic population to Islam.
Furthermore, Seljuk bey whom was the son of one of the strongest vassels in the region conquered chunks of Persian land with Turkic Tengriists. He himself used be Tengriist, but decided to become Muslim so he didn't have to pay Jizzya to his Sovereign Lord.

Many Mongol invasions occurred in the east side of the Turkic Muslim groups. Thus they fled to the east, populating the Byzantine part (now Turkey), but also leaving Muslims behind in the east. Many famous scholars like Rumi became prominent and influential in the West, in which people started voluntarily becoming Muslim.

Also, Turks cared a lot about their leader. Believing in him and supporting him. Many of the leaders became Muslims because
>muh political gain
Which ended in the population becoming Muslim as well.

There was also an extra tax on non-Muslims, which reverted a lot of people so they wouldn't have to pay the extra tax.

If for some reason you're not an alpha historian, and you're from /pol/ and will write TL;DR, then I have this for you:

MONEY + POWER + CONQUESTS - - >Turks become Muslim

>muh political gain
>Which ended in the population becoming Muslim as well.
The funny thing in the conversion of the Seljuks is that when Tughrul Beg married the caliph al-Qaim's daughter, he did according to ancient Turkic rituals, not to islamic ones.

>For some reason the Chinese started slaughtering the Turks in the region

You would too if you spent 300s-500s AD enduring waves and waves of Turkic invasions shitting up Northern China.

Meaby go back to /pol/

idk who that is but you realize literally everyone except turks hate turks

Probably because the Turks conquered and killed millions of their neighbours from the 7.th to 17.th century. All of Turkeys neighbours were once ruled by them.

Until the 20.th century the name Turk meant barbarian, and all Europeans saw a threat in them, and former enslavers of Europeans.

>Meaby go back to /pol/

Turks are the only non European nation who managed to conquer and defeat Europeans. Go to Greece, or Bulgaria. They all see a threat who could attack and destroy them in any moment.

Considering the genocides Turks committed against, Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians and Christians in general i'm surprised they stopped being called "barbarian" in the 20th century.

>Who are moors
>Who are arabs
>Who are mongols
>Who are Huns (Europeaness debatable)
>Who are Phoenicians.

Turks managed to take millions of Europeans as slave, and brought them to the middle east. Selling them to the Arabs, giving their womens as concubines to the Africans, using their childrens as soldiers against their own people.

Turks are/were basically the Asian answer against the Europeans. While even the Chinese were conquered by the British, the Turks were the only one to defend their independence.

>implying

>Mongols
Mongols ans Turks are related.
>Huns
Europeans Huns were a mixture of Altaic, Uralic, and Iranic tribes.
>Arabs and Moors
The Umayyads and Abbasids started to use Turkic slave soldiers, they even built cities for those "slaves" in Syria, Iraq and Egypt. They became their advisers and generals. But yes, the western Arabs of North Africa, and the Berbers, and Moors also managed to become a threat towards Europe. Not as strong as the Turks, but yes.

You realise that the first openly homosexual leaders and known persons came from Hellas, the motherland of European civilization. Hompsexuality also existed in Ottoman and other Islamic Turkic empires.

But the people you see there are servants. Those servants were European slaves, taken from the Balkans.

>Considering the genocides

The history of the world is a history of war and genocides. From 1800 to 1914, the Balkan Nations genocided the Turks, and from 1915 to 1922, we genocided them. Nothing to be ashamed of. But I wish we would have finished our job.

>Mongols and Turks are related
False

>From 1800 to 1914, the Balkan Nations genocided the Turks
Nice revisionist history, mehmet. Nothing Balkanites did to Turks compares to the brultizalztion and barbarity Turks inflicted upon other nations

why are you so mad wh*Te boy?
>Asian
I refuse.
We were BLACK answer agaisnt the wh*Tes.

Useful tool to control morons.

only ALLAH (KARA BOĞA) can control people.

not talking about wh*Te """""""""""people""""""""""" according to Quran you're not even people.

This

Islam is literally for dumb niggers. Great tool for manipulating the dumb.

Also to add that the Turkroaches did not even have a working written language.

The average roach was a completely illiterate peasant. Only the converted christian european Ottoman elite could write and recite the Quran, because it was written and recited in Arabic. The average dumb t*rk for all he knew was praying to the sky/tengri lol.

Finally someone that isn't posting shit Turks were nigger memes or blatant retardation thinking Islam is the same now as it was thousands of years ago.

wh*Te boy. stop making things up.

>Turks conquered and killed millions of their neighbours
So Russia did. But it gets less hatred in compare with Turkey

Because they're Christian. If Russia converted to Islam they'd be despised far more than the Turks ever could be.

>But it gets less hatred in compare with Turkey
Not in the modern since the Cold War. Do you live under a rock?