nestorian

Previously it was largely Buddhist with some Iranian beliefs, probably Tibetan Bons and Nestorian Christians for good measure.

Did not Muslim Scholars originally get the texts from Nestorian and Syriac Christians in the Middle East?

As the other poster notes, he does have strong connections to Nestorian Christians of the time.

You've already admitted as much by saying that Nestorian Christianity was heavily Aristotelian.

We know there was a Nestorian Christian community in China in the 13th Century and several of them had diplomatic roles under the Khanate.

How have they not been disappeared off like the Nestorian Church.

> Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism remained common in inner Asia until the 13th century with the Mongol invasions.

Iran could possibly still be predominantly Zoroastrian today, and perhaps much of central Asian still Nestorian Christian, had this war not taken place or gone differently.

It is also possible that Central Asia would be still Buddhist or Manichaean, as those were the major pre-Islamic world religions in the region alongside Nestorian Christianity.

His early teachers were Nestorian Christians.

Genghis Khan commissioned a new written language by hiring some Nestorian priests.

In his work, Gabriel Reynolds discusses the influence of the Church of the East (the Nestorian Church) as a major presence in the 7th-century Near East and a key part of the Quran's original audience.

Was it Islam that impacted/influenced what happened in Persia, or was it the Persian/Syriac/Nestorian culture that created something called "Islam."

But they are still descended from Phoenicians, Libyans, Egyptians, countless migrant tribes (many of whom are collectively labeled under "Bedouin"), Hebrews (yes - the Romans didn't ethnically cleanse the entire population!), Nestorian Christians, etc, etc.

Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism remained common in inner Asia until the 13th century with the Mongol invasions.

In his book Rainbow Body and Resurrection, Francis Tiso follows the Christological splits of the 5th century and the Syro-Oriental (Nestorian) Church.

Reynolds notes that some critical scholars find the East Syrian (Nestorian) Christology congenial to a docetic view of the crucifixion - the idea that Christ only appeared to suffer.