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The Legendary Biographies of Tamerlane: Islam and Heroic Apocrypha in Central Asia

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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 ...

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The Legendary Biographies of Tamerlane: Islam and Heroic Apocrypha in Central Asia 2018, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781108447287

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The Legendary Biographies of Tamerlane: Islam and Heroic Apocrypha in Central Asia 2011, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521517065

Hardcover