User:Kavas/Islamic conquest of Turkestan

Muslims invaded Turkestan and pressured the Turkic people living there to become Muslims. After the spread of Islam in the lands of Iran, Muslims and the Turkic people became neighbours in the 700's. In Umayyad period, the Islamic armies defeated Turkic armies, and conquered Turkic lands. The Islamization process was slow in Umayyad Caliphate period, but it was accelerated in the Abbasid period. The Umayyad were treating Turkic peoples as slaves, the Turkic leaders were executed by them, so there was a negative reaction towards Islam in Turks. Turkic people was resisting the Islamic aggression. However, during the Abbasid period, Arabs respected Turkic peoples. As a result, Islam was spread across Central Asia. The similarities between Islam and Old Turkic religion have helped increasing the speed of Islamization.