Aftermath
Hulagu left 3,000 Mongol soldiers behind to rebuild Baghdad. Ata al-Mulk Juvayni was appointed governor of Baghdad, Lower Mesopotamia, and Khuzistan. At the intervention of the Mongol Hulagu's Nestorian Christian wife, Dokuz Khatun, the Christian inhabitants were spared. Hulagu offered the royal palace to the Nestorian Catholicos Mar Makikha, and ordered a cathedral to be built for him.
Initially, the fall of Baghdad was a shock to the whole Muslim world, but the city became one of economic centers where international trade, money minting and religious affairs flourished under the Ilkhans. The Chief Mongol darughachi was thereafter stationed in the city.
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