Ilkhanate was ruled by the scientist.
The Artquids or Artuqid dynasty ( Modern Turkish : Artuklu Beyliği or Artıklılar , sometimes also spelled as Artukid , Ortoqid or Ortokid ; Turkish plural : Artukoğulları ; Azeri Turkish : Artıqlı ) was a Turkmen dynasty that ruled in Eastern Anatolia , Northern Syria and Northern Iraq in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . The Ilkhanate , also spelled Il-khanate ( ایلخانان , Ilkhānān ; Хүлэгийн улс , Hulagu-yn Ulus ) , was established as a khanate that formed the southwestern sector of the Mongol Empire , ruled by the Mongol House of Hulagu . Later Ilkhanate rulers , beginning with Ghazan in 1295 , would convert to Islam .