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Hulagu Khan sacked Baghdad, ended the Abbasid Caliphate, and founded a Mongol state that eventually converted to Islam and became one of the great patrons of Persian culture. iWrity ARC connects your Ilkhanate fantasy with the readers who have been waiting for this story.
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Ilkhanate fantasy draws on the history and cultural landscape of the Ilkhanate (1256–1335), the Mongol successor state established by Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, after his campaign of conquest through Persia, Iraq, and the Caucasus. The defining event of the Ilkhanate's founding was the sack of Baghdad in 1258 — the destruction of the Abbasid Caliphate, the burning of the House of Wisdom, and the drowning of the last Caliph in the Tigris. Medieval chroniclers wrote that the river ran black with ink from the destroyed books.
What followed was one of history's most dramatic cultural transformations. The Mongol conquerors gradually absorbed Persian court culture, patronized the Maragha Observatory where Nasir al-Din Tusi revolutionized astronomy, commissioned Persian miniature painting at an unprecedented scale, and eventually converted to Islam under Ghazan Khan in 1295. Meanwhile their diplomatic efforts to ally with the Crusader states against the Mamluk Sultanate created some of the medieval world's most improbable political negotiations. iWrity connects your book with readers actively looking for exactly this kind of morally complex, historically saturated speculative fiction.
iWrity's reader pool includes people who have reviewed Mongol conquest fiction, Persian court historical fantasy, and Islamic golden age narratives. Your Ilkhanate story reaches the readers most primed to appreciate and review it.
Yuan dynasty and early Mongol conquest fantasy have growing shelves. The Ilkhanate — with its sack of Baghdad, its conversion to Islam, and its extraordinary patronage of Persian art and science — is almost untouched in commercial fiction. An early well-reviewed title here becomes the category benchmark.
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“Writing about the sack of Baghdad and the Ilkhanate's strange relationship with Christianity and Islam puts me in a tiny sub-niche. iWrity found the readers who live in that niche. The reviews were extraordinary — historically informed and genuinely passionate.”
“My book follows a Persian astronomer at the Maragha Observatory under the Ilkhans. iWrity found readers who knew what Maragha was and why it mattered. Those reviews sold more copies than any promotion I've ever run.”
“The Mongol-Crusader alliance attempts against the Mamluks are one of history's great what-ifs. iWrity found readers who wanted to explore that through fiction. Every review mentioned the historical research, which is exactly what attracts my target buyers.”
The Ilkhanate sits at one of history's great intersections and almost no commercial fantasy has explored it. Get your book in front of the right readers — free to start, no credit card required.
Create Your Free AccountYes, and it is substantially underserved. Mongol fantasy readership is large, but most commercial titles focus on Genghis Khan and the early conquests or on the Yuan dynasty in China. The Ilkhanate — the Mongol successor state that ruled Persia, Iraq, and Anatolia from 1256 to 1335, founded by Hulagu Khan after his destruction of the Abbasid Caliphate and the sack of Baghdad in 1258 — sits at one of history's most dramatic intersections: Mongol military power, Persian literary and scientific culture, Islamic theological upheaval, and the Crusader states of the Levant all colliding in real time.
iWrity's matching engine analyzes each reader's review history and stated genre preferences. Readers who have engaged with Mongol historical fiction, Persian court narratives, Islamic golden age settings, and stories of empire transformation are prioritized for your campaign. These readers appreciate the tension between Mongol conquerors who eventually converted to the religion of those they conquered, the patronage of Persian miniature painting and astronomy under Hulagu's successors, and the geopolitical chess game between the Ilkhanate, the Mamluks, and the Latin Crusaders — and they leave detailed reviews that convert browsers into buyers.
Most authors collect between 10 and 40 verified reviews per campaign over a 4 to 6 week window. The exact number depends on your campaign size and how closely your book matches reader preferences. Ilkhanate fantasy tends to attract readers with high completion rates because the historical setting — Mongol power fused with Persian culture, against a backdrop of Crusader diplomacy and Mamluk resistance — is rich and almost unexplored in commercial fiction.
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