What is Hulagu Khan?
{{Infobox Monarch | name =Hulagu | title =[[Khan (title)|Khan]] | image =HulaguAndDokuzKathun.JPG | caption =<small> Hulagu with his Kerait queen [[Doquz Khatun]]</small> | reign =1217 - 1265 | coronation = | othertitles = | full name = | predecessor = | successor = | suc-type = | heir = | queen = [[Doquz Khatun]] | consort = | spouse 1 = | spouse 2 = | spouse 3 = | spouse 4 = | spouse 5 = | spouse 6 = | issue = | royal house = | dynasty = | royal anthem = | father = [[Tolui]] | mother = [[Sorghaghtani Beki]] | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = 8 February 1265 | death_place = | burial_date = | burial_place = [[Lake Urmia]] | religion = Buddhism{{NoteTag|note=Though Hülagü Khan was a Buddhist, he was also influenced by Nestorian Christianity through his wife, as well as by traditional Tengrist beliefs of the Mongols.}}<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Martin |first1=Dan |last2=Samten |first2=Jampa |chapter=Letters for the Khans: Six Tibetan Epistles for the Mongol Rulers Hulegu and Khubilai, and the Tibetan Lama Pagpa. Co-authored with Jampa Samten |chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/11020428 |editor=Roberto Vitali |title=Trails of The Tibetan Tradition: Papers for Elliot Sperling |date=2014 |isbn=9788186227725 |publisher=Amnye Machen Institute |language=en |access-date=2024-06-27 |archive-date=2021-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908055745/https://www.academia.edu/11020428 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Grousset |first1=René |title=The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia |date=1970 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=9780813513041 |url=https://archive.org/details/empireofsteppes00grou |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/empireofsteppes00grou/page/358 358] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Vaziri |first1=Mostafa |tit