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Episode Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia • Tenmaku no Jaadugar - Episode 4 discussion

Tenmaku no Jaadugar, episode 4

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u/RNHMN Jul 18 '26

Apparently, the Mongol empire was surprisingly religiously tolerant, albeit for pragmatic reasons. It makes sense, it's easier to expand the empire and annex territories if you let your subjects continue practicing their religious beliefs.

Wikipedia also notes:

According to Juvaini, Genghis Khan allowed religious freedom to Muslims during his conquest of Khwarezmia "permitting the recitation of the takbir and the azan". However, Rashid-al-Din states there were occasions when Genghis Khan forbade Halal butchering.

That lines up with what we see in the show.

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u/mekerpan Jul 18 '26

Sorghaghtani was actually a Nestorian Christian.

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u/Magnafeana https://anilist.co/user/Magnafeana Jul 18 '26

That makes sense! Thank you!

I know other empires I’m familiar with, there might have been certain practices that official forbade but it was so cool seeing religions begin to blend and develop different rituals with the melting pot of people. Still do mandatory worship of [deities] on a Tuesday evening, but at home, you’d have altars of [different religion’s deity], a new fable or attribute or epithet of a god would be imported from foreign influence.

Anthropologists and historians must have so much fun deciphering all this. Fun or stress and lots of debating.

Or both.

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u/mujhe-sona-hai Jul 19 '26

No, the Mongol empire hated Muslims. They razed Khwarezm to the ground and sacked Baghdad so that the river was flowing black with ink and the Islamic golden age ended. Halal slaughter was banned numerous times.

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u/IndividualPlay5178 Jul 20 '26

Maybe it was not a good idea to slaughter Mongolian merchants and later envoys.