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.
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