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A powerful account of the life of Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405), the last master nomadic power, one of history’s most extreme tyrants, and the subject of Marlowe’s famous play. Marozzi travelled in the footsteps of the great Mogul Emperor of Samarkland to write this wonderful combination of history and travelogue.
Translated from a Persian translation (Malfūzạ̄t) made by Abū Tạ̄lib al-Hụsaynī (fl. 1637) of a lost Chagatai original.
The great nomad conqueror Tamerlane rose to power in 1370 in the ruins of the Mongol Empire and led his armies of conquest from Russia to India, from Turkestan to Anatolia. In this, the first full study of an extraordinary person, Beatrice Forbes Manz examines Tamerlane as the founder of a nomad conquest dynasty and as a supremely talented individual, raising many current questions about the mechanisms of state formation, the dynamics of tribal politics, and the relations of tribes to central leadership.
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. 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.
Este libro historico puede tener numerosos errores tipograficos y texto faltante. Los compradores pueden descargar una copia gratuita escaneada del libro original (sin errores tipograficos) desde la editorial. No indexado. No se muestra. 1723 edition. Extracto: ...of Omar Cheik, Sultan HufTein and Aboubecre, with the Emirs who had been fent to Mencoul3 to join f the the Mirza Charoc, arriv'd at court, and faluted the emperor. The army decamp'd from the meadow of Nakchivan, went to the defile of Chahboz, and entered into the mountains. Timur being arriv'd at Gheuktcheytonkez, had a defire to take the diverfion of hunting, and when the circle began to clofe as ufual, they took a very great num...
Translated from a Persian translation (Malfūẓāt) made by Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusaynī (fl. 1637) of a lost Chagatai original.
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