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Timur, the fourteenth-century conqueror of Western, South and Central Asia was the founder of the Timurid dynasty (1370–1405) in Central Asia and was an ancestor of Babur who established Mughal Kingdom in India.
Timur was induced by the surpassing riches of India and by the duty of the “Holy War” against the infidels. The objective of Timur to invade India was “to lead a campaign against the “Infidels” and convert them to true faith as per the command of Hazarat Muhammad and purify the land from the pollution of misbelief and overthrow the temples and the idols placed inside them“.
Crossing the Indus and all the five rivers of Punjab, Timur almost unopposed reached capital on December 17, 1398 where a decisive battle was fought. Before he entered Delhi, more than 100000 Hindus were taken as prisoners. As a precaution to the war elephants of the Sultan, he made a defense camp with brushwood and trees, followed by a store and cattles and the Hindu women. His horsemen were stationed with the women prisoners. The women prisoners were raped and tortured. Before leaving for the battle, Timur ordered all of the 1 lakh men to be slain in cold blood.
The armies of Sultan Nasir-u Din Mahmud attempted to withstand this tyrant’s forces but were defeated. Timur left Delhi in December 1398 and marched on Meerut. Then he attacked Haridwar and overran the city in 1399. At Bhokarhedi, he faced stiff resistance from the Hindus. In 1399 he returned his capital with numerous slaves and 90 captured elephants laden with precious stones and gold looted from India. He returned to his capital Amu Darya and built a mosque at Samarkand.
This mosque named Bibi-Khanym Mosque is located in Samarkand, Uzbekistan was built by Timur and is named after wife of Timur.
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Timur[4] (Chagatai: تيمور Temür "Iron"; 9 April 1336 – 17–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī (Chagatai: Temür Küregen),[5] sometimes spelled Taimur and historically best known as Amir Timur or Tamerlane[6] (Persian: تيمور لنگ Temūr(-i) Lang, Chagatai: اقساق تیمور Aqsaq Temür,[7] "Timur the Lame"), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty. As an undefeated commander, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in history.[8][9] Timur is also considered a great patron of art and architecture, as he interacted with intellectuals such as Ibn Khaldun and Hafiz-i Abru and his reign introduced the Timurid Renaissance.[8]:341–2 He is often credited with the invention of the Tamerlane chess variant, played on a larger 10×11 board.[10] According to John Joseph Saunders, Timur was "the product of an Islamized and Iranized society", and not steppe nomadic.[11]
Timur
Amir
Beg
Gurkani (Son-in-law)
Sahib Qiran[1] (Lord of Conjunction)
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Timur facial reconstruction from skull, by Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov
1st Amir of the Timurid Empire
Reign
9 April 1370 – 14 February 1405
Coronation
9 April 1370, Balkh[2]
Predecessor
None
Amir Hussain (as ruler of Transoxiana)
Successor
Khalil Sultan
Born
9 April 1336[2]
Kesh, Chagatai Khanate (now Shahrisabz, Uzbekistan)
Died
18 February 1405 (aged 68)
Farab, Timurid Empire (now Otrar, Kazakhstan)
Burial
Gur-e-Amir, Samarkand
Consort
Saray Mulk Khanum
Wives
Chulpan Mulk Agha
Aljaz Turkhan Agha
Tukal Khanum
Dil Shad Agha
Touman Agha
Other wives
Issue
Detail
Umar Shaikh Mirza I
Jahangir Mirza
Miran Shah
Shah Rukh Mirza
Full name
Shuja-ud-din Timur[3] bin Taraghai Barlas
House
Barlas Timurid
Father
Amir Taraghai
Mother
Tekina Khatun
Religion
Sunni Islam
Born into the Barlas confederation in Transoxiana (in modern-day Uzbekistan) on 9 April 1336, Timur gained control of the western Chagatai Khanate by 1370. From that base, he led military campaigns across Western, South and Central Asia, the Caucasus and southern Russia, and emerged as the most powerful ruler in the Muslim world after defeating the Mamluks of Egypt and Syria, the emerging Ottoman Empire, and the declining Delhi Sultanate of India.[12] From these conquests, he founded the Timurid Empire, but this empire fragmented shortly after his death.
Timur was the last of the great nomadic conquerors of the Eurasian Steppe, and his empire set the stage for the rise of the more structured and lasting Islamic gunpowder empires in the 16th and 17th centuries.[13][14]:1 Timur envisioned the restoration of the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan (died 1227) and according to Gérard Chaliand, saw himself as Genghis Khan's heir.[15]
Though not a Borjigid or a descendant of Genghis Khan,[16] Timur clearly sought to invoke the legacy of the latter's conquests during his lifetime.[17] According to Beatrice Forbes Manz, "in his formal correspondence Temur continued throughout his life to portray himself as the restorer of Chinggisid rights. He justified his Iranian, Mamluk, and Ottoman campaigns as a re-imposition of legitimate Mongol control over lands taken by usurpers."[18] To legitimize his conquests, Timur relied on Islamic symbols and language, referred to himself as the "Sword of Islam". He was a patron of educational and religious institutions. He converted nearly all the Borjigin leaders to Islam during his lifetime. Timur decisively defeated the Christian Knights Hospitaller at the Siege of Smyrna, styling himself a ghazi.[8]:91 By the end of his reign, Timur had gained complete control over all the remnants of the Chagatai Khanate, the Ilkhanate, and the Golden Horde, and even attempted to restore the Yuan dynasty in China.
Timur's armies were inclusively multi-ethnic and were feared throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe,[8] sizable parts of which his campaigns laid to waste.[19] Scholars estimate that his military campaigns caused the deaths of 17 million people, amounting to about 5% of the world population at the time.[20][21] Of all the areas he conquered, Khwarazm suffered the most from his expeditions, as it rose several times against him.[22]
Timur was the grandfather of the Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician Ulugh Beg, who ruled Central Asia from 1411 to 1449, and the great-great-great-grandfather of Babur (1483–1530), founder of the Mughal Empire, which then ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent.
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