The Legendary Biographies of Tamerlane (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

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Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Timur or Tamerlane is famous as the fourteenth-century conqueror of much of Central Eurasia and the founder of the Timurid dynasty. His reputation lived on in his native lands and reappeared some three centuries after his death in the form of fictional biographies, authored anonymously in Persian and Turkic. These biographies have become part of popular culture.

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Despite Timur or Tamerlane is famous as the fourteenth-century conqueror of much of Central Eurasia and the founder of the Timurid dynasty. Despite a direct continuity in their production from the eighteenth century to the present, they remain virtually unknown to people outside the region.

This remarkable and rigorous scholarly appraisal of the legendary biographies of Tamerlane is the first of its kind in any language. The book sheds light not only on the character of Tamerlane and how he was remembered and championed by many generations after his demise, but also on the era in which the biographies were written, and how they were conceived and received by the local populace during an age of crisis in their own history.

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