Key Pages:
Home
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
Box 1837 / 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-3188
Fax: (401) 863-9423
[email protected]
(1217-1265) Hulegu was a Mongol ruler and a grandson of Genghis Khan who expanded the southwestern portion of the Mongol empire and founded the Ilkhanate Dynasty of Persia, which would pave the way for the Safavid Dynasty several centuries later. Under his leadership a huge Mongol army destroyed Abbasid power in Baghdad and the Ayubbids in and around Damascus. Hulegu's conquests opened Persia to European and Chinese influences, which would have a great impact on the creation of a distinct Persian style of art and architecture.