Abaqa

Abaqa , or Abaka (Mongolian avga : paternal uncle), wire of Hülegü, born in 1234, Persian second ilkhan of of 1265 to its death in 1282. His/her brother Ahmad Teküder succeeded to him.

He reigned on most of the Perse towards the end of the 13th century; he guarantees his states of the invasion of the septentrional Tatar S, and died in 1282.

He privileged the interests of the Bouddhiste S and the Christian in the khanat Ilkhanide whose population was in great majority Musulman E, the attempts at forced conversions involving of many clashes. Abaqa was itself Buddhist, just like his/her father Hülegü, it also followed a policy pro-Christian woman (his/her mother being of nestorienne confession). On the external level, this orientation resulted in the sending of embassies to the Pape of the time, Gregoire X and with the European sovereigns in order to carry out an united action against the Moslem powers (in particular the Mamelouk S of Syria and Egypt), but these initiatives proved failures as many.

Abaqa also knew several defeats vis-a-vis the Mamelouk S of Baybars in its successive attempts at conquest of Syria and Egypt, and the difficulties against the other close Mongolian powers, namely the khanat of the Kiptchak, i.e. the Horde of Gold, and the State Djaghataï of, which disputed a certain number of territories to him and went until being combined to the Mamelukes against the Ilkhanides.

Sources: empire of the steppes , Rene Grousset.

External bonds

Genealogy http://perso.wanadoo.fr/steppeasia/genealogie_gengis_khan.htm

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