Eastern Muslim Groups among Hungarians in the Middle Ages / Erdal Çoban - Bilig 63. Sayı – Güz 2012 (original) (raw)

The role of Islam in Hungarian history dates back before the Ottoman reign. The first written records about the 9 th and 10 th century Hungarians belong to Muslim writers who brought these up on the scene of history with their own ethnic names. In the light of Garnati and other sources, we can designate that there were two Khwarezmian ethnic groups, respectively the Turkified Chwalisians and the As people among Hungarians and these groups joined Hungarians before the Magyar conquest (896) of Hungary. Out of these groups, which were called Ishmaelite or böszörmény by Hungarian sources, especially the Chwalisians later continued to migrate to Hungary together with various Turkic tribes during the medieval period. The Chwalisians undertook significant posts in administrative and financial fields while, at the same time, they became a part of Hungarian army like the As people.

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