Books like The Secret History of the Mongols by Francis Woodman Cleaves

Jack Weatherford’s Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World traces the rise of Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire, showing how its conquests and governance reshaped trade, technology and law across Eurasia.

Originally written in the 13th century in the Mongolian language this poetic history relates the rise to power of Genghis Khan in the years immediately before the Mongol domination of Asia.

"An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule. The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distinguished historian Peter Jackson offers a fresh and fascinating consideration of the years of infidel Mongol rule in Western Asia, drawing from an impressive array of primary sources as well as modern studies to demonstrate how Islam not only survived the savagery of the conquest, but spread throughout the empire. This unmatched study goes beyond the well-documented Mongol campaigns of massacre and devastation to explore different aspects of an immense imperial event that encompassed what is now Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Afghanistan, as well as Central Asia and parts of eastern Europe. It examines in depth the cultural consequences for the incorporated Islamic lands, the Muslim experience of Mongol sovereignty, and the conquerors' eventual conversion to Islam"--Provided by publisher.