Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "நடு ஆசியா மீதான மங்கோலியப் படையெடுப்பு" in Tamil language version.
Though he was himself a Chinese, he learned his trade from his father, who had accompanied Genghis Khan on his invasion of Muslim Transoxania and Iran. Perhaps the use of gunpowder as a propellant, in other words the invention of true guns, appeared first in the Muslim Middle East, whereas the invention of gunpowder itself was a Chinese achievement
