Timur
Sign in to saveTimur (1320s17/18 February 1405), also known as Tamerlane, was a Turco-Mongol conqueror, first ruler of the Timurid dynasty, and the founder of the Timurid Empire, which ruled over modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia. He was undefeated in battle and is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in history, as well as one of the most brutal and deadly. Timur is also considered a great patron of the arts, for he interacted with scholars and poets such as ibn Khaldun, Hafez, and Hafiz-i Abru. His reign led to the Timurid Renaissance.
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Timur (1320s–1405), also known as Tamerlane, was a Central Asian conqueror who built a vast empire across Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia and became legendary as an undefeated military strategist, though also remembered for extreme brutality. He founded the Timurid dynasty and sparked a cultural renaissance by patronizing scholars and poets, making him significant both as a military figure and as a promoter of arts and learning.
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- 9 April 1336
- Died
- 19 February 1405
- Works
- 31
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- Tarkhannye iarlyki Tokhtamysha, Timur-Kutluka i Saadet-Gireia
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- Avtobigrafii︠a︡ Timura
- Autobiography of Timur
- Timur ve tüzükâtı
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- Ancestry
- Early life
- Military leader
- Rise to power
- Legitimization of Timur's rule
- Period of expansion
- Conquest of Persia
- Tokhtamysh–Timur war
- Ismailis
- Campaign against the Delhi Sultanate
- Capture of Delhi (1398)
- Campaigns in the Caucasus and the Levant
- Invasion of Anatolia
- Attempts to attack the Ming dynasty
- Death
- Succession
- Religious views
- Personality
- Exchanges with Europe
- Legacy
- Historical sources
- ''Malfuzat-i Timuri''
- European views
- Exhumation and alleged curse
- In the arts
- Wives and concubines
- Descendants
- Sons of Timur
- Daughters of Timur
- Sons of Umar Shaikh Mirza I
- Sons of Jahangir
- Sons of Miran Shah
- Sons of Shah Rukh Mirza
- See also
- Notes
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- Sources
- Further reading
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Timur (1320s17/18 February 1405), also known as Tamerlane, was a Turco-Mongol conqueror, first ruler of the Timurid dynasty, and the founder of the Timurid Empire, which ruled over modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia. He was undefeated in battle and is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in history, as well as one of the most brutal and deadly. Timur is also considered a great patron of the arts, for he interacted with scholars and poets such as ibn Khaldun, Hafez, and Hafiz-i Abru. His reign led to the Timurid Renaissance.
Born into the Turkicized Mongol confederation of the Barlas in Transoxiana (now in Uzbekistan) in the 1320s, Timur gained control of the western Chagatai Khanate by 1370 and from there he led a series of military campaigns defeating the Khans of the Golden Horde, the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt and Syria, the emerging Ottoman Empire, as well as the Delhi Sultanate in the Indian subcontinent, thus becoming the most powerful ruler in the Muslim world. These conquests led to the creation of the Timurid Empire, which fragmented shortly after his death. He spoke several languages, including the Karluk Turkic language Chagatai (an ancestor of modern Uzbek and Uyghur), as well as Classical Mongolian and New Persian, which he used for diplomatic correspondence.