The Mongol conquests of the 13th and 14th century have been exhaustively studied during the last hundred years. Despite this great amount of research the view about the religious policies of the early Mongol Khans and especially the Ilkhans of Persia vary from scholar to scholar. Some have stated that the Mongols preferred Buddhism, others describe them as religiously tolerant treating all religions as equal. Furthermore, some scholars claim that the Mongols had strong leanings towards Christianity, deriving this information mainly from sources written by Christians living under the Mongol rule.Especially the Syriac texts are often quoted.
My interest in this study grew out of these contradictions as well as from the fact that these Syriac sources have been used relatively little to study the attitudes of the Syrian Christians themselves.My purpose in this thesis is to closely study the few Syriac historical texts written by Christian authors under the Mongol rule. Using the methodology of image research I will examine what kind of image these texts give of the Mongols and also how this image was created. An important theme in such research is the meaning of history and historiography for the Syrian Christians. With these methods it is possible to better understand the mentality of the Syrian Christians and also to take into discussion the value the Syriac texts have for the history of the Mongols. The most important texts for my study are The Chronography of Bar Hebraeus including two separate continuations to the work, and The Monks of Kûblâi Khân by an unknown Nestorian writer.

https://www.academia.edu/3846098/Writing_a_Christianized_History_of_the_Mongols._The_Mongols_in_Syriac_texts_in_the_late_13th_and_early_14th_century