The Origins of Islam in Bagdad

Many turkish clans and tribes from these migrations would serve as mercenaries for wealthy nations, enabling them to gather their own wealth. One such clan would migrate under the leadership of a man called selduk, who discovered and converted to islam. And this would create a division between him and the os turks. Selduk and his descendants would expand their influence over their neighbours in order to create their own sunny lamic national identity. These expansions would bring them to the upper mesopotamian borderlands of the byzantine empire where they happily raid their lands. The heart of islamic culture was now in the city of bagdad and represented by a dynasty called the ab