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Timur, Emir · Conqueror from Samarkand

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RulerEmir · Conqueror from Samarkand

Timurتيمور

Samarkand

A Turco-Mongol conqueror who called himself a Muslim yet massacred Muslim cities from Delhi to Damascus.

From Samarkand he conquered Iran, Iraq and Central Asia, sacked Delhi in 1398 and Baghdad and Damascus in 1401, and captured the Ottoman sultan at Ankara in 1402. His armies left towers of skulls at Isfahan and elsewhere. He met Ibn Khaldun outside Damascus. He died marching on China.

The lesson

Fine mosques in one city do not wash away the blood of others.

Who came before and after?

Shah Rukh

Where do they appear in the story?

Who else is linked?

TimuridsSamarkandBayezid IIbn KhaldunIbn al-JazariAnkara

Who lived at the same time?

BarquqBayezid IMurad IMuhammad V of GranadaFiruz Shah TughluqShah RukhIbn al-JazariZheng He

Source: history · Wikipedia

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