How did the Tuerks converted to Islam?

"Our ancestors" are the Oghuz you know and they didn't fight a religious war with the "Arabs" in Central Asia because when they appeared, the Abb�sids were no longer there. The convertion of the Oghuz was rather peaceful, it started with the convertion of Seljuk (real name Sel��k?) Begh and his followers in the 10th century, and continued in the 11th century. Though, I guess the convertion of the Oghuz into Islam was both by force (ordered by the ruler; like what happened happened to the Kievan Rus) and by the people's will because of the increasing Islamic propaganda made by missionaries.

OTOH, the Umawwids did fight bloody and long wars with the Western Tujue/Onoq and with the Khazars. However, since these peoples were not converted to Islam, you can't say the Turks converted totally by brutal force of the Arabic invaders.

The Uyghurs started to convert because of Qara-Khanid pressure. The Qara-Khanids, like the Oghuz, converted in multiple ways. Same with the Volga Bulgars.

I don't know how the rest converted, probably in the way of Oghuz, Qara-Khanids and Volga Bulgars.

Turks had the G�ktanr� religion, which isn't pagan, and shamanism at the time when some Turkish tribes were being converted to �slam under the Ummawid rule. Some Turkish tribes became Muslims because of the arabic violence and forced to believe in their beliefs. The Ummawid armys under Kuteybe Bin Muslim's control invaded the Turkish cities Semerkand and Buhara. They collected heavy taxes from all non-arabic nations even if they were Muslims. But they were only a small amount of Turkish tribes who weren't dependent to any Turkish khanates...

Also the Oghuz tribes which are todays Turkey's, Azerbaijan's and Turkmenistan's ancestors began to accept Islam in 10. century...

But the main factors of Turks convertion to Islam are:

1. Battle of Talas: The Abbasid armies and chinese armies had a war and the Karluks fighted with abbasids to stop the chinese invasion to todays kyrg�zistan. After this war, economical relationships and cultural sharing began btw arabs and Turks.

2. The Karahanids: They were the first Turkish khanate that accepted Islam as its religion without any forcing. They built the first Turk-Islam culture...

3.The Oghuz and Seljuks:This is the most important convertion. The Oghuz Yabgu Khanate that ruled the Eastern Caspian lands was losing its power and a suba��- a commandering the army- didn't accept the yabgu's command of attacking other turkish tribes. His name was Dukak Beg. After his death, his son Selchuk Beg commanded all the Oghuz army and rebelled to the yabgu in the city of Cent, which was the border between arabs and Turks. He accepted Islam with his K�n�k tribe and then fighted for his own lands independence.

After he became independent, he accepted Islam and build the Selchuklu Beyligi. Then, they conquererd the Oghuz Yabgu lands, Iran, the Karahanids, Mesopotamia, Jarusalem, all eastern medetarinnean and most of the arabic peninsula including Mecca and Medina. They joined all Turks and Muslims under their rule and the protection of Islam. They became the biggest and strongest defenders of Islam and the Ottoman Empire was built with their cultural inheritance...

I wouldn't call it the "G�ktanr� religion", I like the term Tengriism/Tengrism more. Plus, there really isn't any religions called "Shamanism", that's Neo-Tengrism.

Which "Turkish tribes" converted to Islam under Umawwid rule?

Again, which tribes?

You mean the Soghdian cities ruled by a Turkic elite.

No, it was the Volga Bulgar Khanate.

Actually they didn't conquer the original Oghuz homeland, they had already migrated away from there into Transoxiana and later into the Middle East. And the Qara-Khanid states were only vassals of the Selj�kid Greater Sultanate.

They actually didn't have much, the results of the Battle of Talas has been greatly exaggarated.

You're right but keep in mind the fact that the S�ss�nids were already weakened from their long-lasting wars they fought against the Byzantine Romans and Western Turks.

I'm not very sure but IIRC the Islamisation of the Uyghurs was started by force by the Qara-Khanids in the 10th century, and continued up to the 15th-16th centuries. However, I have no details right now.

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To Stillhawk

This is not a FACT

you should read your Turkish History again 

Islam gave civilization which made Turkey through the  Ottomans one of the strongest empires in the world

And that wont be possible if it started by raping women to "Convert" you

Look at turkey now, to me it looks so confused ( ignoring and hating your Islamic history and your Government begging  Europe to get accepted in her "comunity"

here is a tip let your government announces that it is a Christan country and it will get accepted right away

its like we are living in the middle ages, no matter what you do Europe will keep look at Turkey as an Islamic country which wont be accepted in her Christan community. 

Some Oguz tribes living under their rule. For example Af�ar and Yuregir. Because the caliphate invaded southern Aral region where Turks live.

In history, the Karahanids ara known as the first Turk khanate that accepted Islam as its religion. The Bulgars were not even an independent Turkish state. They were a small nomadic group converted to Islam and lost their ethnicity...

"Actually they didn't conquer the original Oghuz homeland, they had already migrated away from there into Transoxiana and later into the Middle East. And the Qara-Khanid states were only vassals of the Selj�kid Greater Sultanate."

If you read my post carefully, you will see that I didn't right HOMELANDS. I wrote OGUZ YABGU LANDS. That is an Oguz khanate where Dukak Beg was suba��.

Some of the conversions happened by that decision like Vladimir converting to Christian Orthodoxy over judaism. Judaism as he puts it was the faith of a defeated people.