The Role of Muslim Scientists in developing the Intellectual Movement During the Ilkhanate Era

Abstract

The period after the fall of Baghdad at the hands of the Mongols (after 656 AH) is considered one of the important and critical periods in Islamic history. This period was not one of the dark periods as described by some historians, as some describe it as a period of stagnation and decline,  what have been seen in the details of this matter, it is different. Despite the difficulty of this period of time, and the political chaos it went through, there are intellectual and literary activities, as scholars played their role in performing their scientific tasks in the Ilkhanate era. As a result, it was a significant development in the scientific movement in Iraq and the Islamic East, in addition to the role of scholars in the development of intellectual life and the emergence of a number of schools related to this matter. The study reached a set of results, the most prominent of which is that there was a great role for the scholars of Hilla in the development of the intellectual movement through the scientific delegations that met with Hulagu to protect their city, including Sadid Al-Din Al-Hali, Ibn Idris Al-Hali, Ibn Nama, and the pride of the investigators Hassan ben Yusuf ben Ali ben Al-Mutahhar Al-Asadi. Also, when Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi accompanied Hulagu during the invasion of Baghdad, Al-Tusi collected four hundred thousand volumes in Baghdad.