When Hulagu Khan conquered Baghdad, the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates were red not with ink but with human blood. Libraries were burned, madrasas were deserted, and death danced in the streets of the city. The lamp of the Abbasid Caliphate had gone out, and Baghdad, the center of knowledge and wisdom, had become a pile of rubble.Hulagu Khan set up his grand camp outside the city. Rows of tents, armed soldiers, and such an atmosphere of fear that even a bird thought before flying. From this camp, he sent a message to Baghdad:“The greatest scholar of the city should come to me.”This message spread like lightning through the city. People were shocked. Scholars, jurists, hadith scholars—everyone knew that Hulagu Khan was a priest of power, not knowledge. Going to his court was tantamount to inviting death.Every scholar refused.Someone said: “It is a disgrace to go to the court…