The Golden Horde is best known as that part of the Mongol empire that ruled the lands we now know as Russia from approximately 1237 to 1359. Originally, however, it consisted of those lands that Genghis Khan (1165–1227) bequeathed to his son...

The Golden Horde (Mongolian: Алтан Ордын улс Altan Ordyn Uls; Tatar: Altın Urda; Russian: Золотая Орда, Zolotaya Orda) is a Russian designation for the Mongol[1][2][3] — later Turkicized[4] — khanate established in the...

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Devin DeWeese's Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde is a tour de force of erudition and meticulous interpretation on a previously much neglected topic - Islamization of Inner Asian peoples - on the basis of an often laconic, widely scattered, and...