Is there actually a particular reason why the Oghuz Turks voluntarily converted to Islam despite their military superiority ?

Short answer: They didn’t.

Long answer: Arabs had the military superiority in terms of quantity, they had already captured all of Iran and most of north Africa if i remember correctly. They’ve just lost some wars and might as well thought “Hey we are dying because we are not following a certain religion, better follow it to not get killed!”

There are several potential reasons:

1.Their original beliefs in Tengriism shared similarities with Islam making the new faith easier to accept.

2.Converting helped them build political and military alliances with powerful Muslim neighbours like the Abbasids, boosting their legitimacy and influence.

3.Many Oghuz leaders sincerely embraced Islam inspired by religious teachings and Sufi missionaries.

What you are saying is false lol. Turks didn’t convert peacefully. We are “qılınc müsəlmanı”

They didnt voluntarily convert to islam. Thats the crux.

The Oghuz Turks were the first to be enslaved by the Umayyad and later abbasids. So the first Turks entered islam through slavery. İt wasnt until the abbasids laws changed that slaves were able to convert to islam in order to escape slavery. The abbasids recognized that including the Turks in their conquest was too much of an advantage than keeping them slaves and risking them revolting against the abbasids, so they allowed it.

Other Turks such as the Kipchaks converted with the help of the initially converted/enslaved Turks, which fostered communication between the people after conquering them. Thats why the myth of peaceful conversion spread, other Turks that converted later on werent subjected to the same treatment as the first Turks who converted were.

Selçuk beğ converted to islam to avoid having to pay the Yabgu of the Oghuz-Yabgu state their taxes.

Saying “muslims will not pay the taxes to infidels” in Jand.

Selçuk beğs father Tuqaq “Temüryaylı” beğ was likely a Jew with Tengristic beliefs for he served the Oghuz-Yabgu state and was so popular and had so much honor/respect in the Tengrist state that he broke the nose of the ruling Yabgu and the Yabgu forgave him. Noone tried to arrest or punish him for doing it.

Selçuk beğ, in the pursuit of tax excemption, started a war against the Oghuz-Yabgu state but lost and retreated to the abbasid state in persian regions.
There his grandchildren Çağrı beğ and Tuğrıl beğ founded the Selçuk empire.

Thus birthing the first islamic Oghuz empire.

Selçuk himself converted strictly out of personal gains. Even all his sons except Alparslan, have jewish names. Even fespite all that the average non-elite Oghuz was still traditionally Tengrist until they reached western iran. Only the elite was islamic.

The same reason the Mongols adopted Confucianism and Buddhism, and Germans adopted Christianity and Roman law.

Nomads can invade civilization (in its strict sense, country with cities), but they can’t rule… not for long at least, unless they have a legitimacy mandate.

To rule over the city, you need to integrate yourself into the complex system of the city. You also need to show the people that you are a legitimate ruler, and not a brute raider that they need to bribe or kick out.

That means you put yourself as a wang under the Mandate of Heaven in China, submit to the Emperor as a king in Christendom, or put yourself as a sultan or emir in the nominal service of the Caliph.

No community in history has ever voluntarily entered a religion as a fully society, especially not in Islam. There was a great authority gap among the Central Asian Turk peoples, Turks were also fighting each other, the Arabs took advantage of this gap, thanks to the Arabs, Turks also had the opportunity to take revenge from Chineses, Karluks changed sides in the Talas war and the Islamic army won the war, but this revenge caused a greater disaster for Turks.

Never forget the Talkan and Curcan massacres and the dog breed Kuteybe Bin Muslim. Neither Arabs nor the Arab religions are of any benefit to anyone other than Arabs.

“Battle of Talas” always is mentioned when it comes to issue.

Literally for easy trade and easy managemant.

Maybe they just like the religion ? Like why there should be a hidden reason other than they are men who stick to their beliefs? Oghuz Turks were known for honesty and I think it’s because they were convinced by the religion

“Dünyada ərəblər kimi gözəl nağıl uyduran, farslar kimi bu nağılı gözəl danışan və türklər kimi bu nağıla inanan ikinci bir millət yoxdur!”

-Mirzə Fətəli Axundov

Tengriism was not a rational religion. There were no books or something. The rules passed down from generation to generation. Over the centuries, some gods disappeared and others were added. In Islam, there were books and scholars. Imagine going to university campus after living as a shepherd. For those people, coming from steppes to Transoxiana or Khorasan was a huge step.