13 Facts About Timurid Empire

Timurid Empire, self-designated as Gurkani, was a Persianate Turco-Mongol empire that dominated Greater Iran in the early 15th century, comprising modern-day Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, much of Central Asia, the South Caucasus, as well as most of contemporary Pakistan and parts of contemporary North India and Turkey.

Timurid Empire envisioned himself as the great restorer of the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan, regarded himself as Genghis's heir, and associated much with the Borjigin.

However, members of the Timurid Empire dynasty continued to rule smaller states, sometimes known as Timurid Empire emirates, in Central Asia and parts of India.

Timurid Empire subjugated Multan and Dipalpur in modern-day Pakistan in 1398.

However, Timurid Empire rulers continued to dominate Persia, Mesopotamia, Armenia, large parts of Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, minor parts of India, and much of Central Asia, though the Anatolian and Caucasian territories were lost by the 1430s to the Qara Qoyunlu.

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The Aq Qoyunlu conquered most of Iran from the Timurids, and by 1500, the divided and wartorn Timurid Empire had lost control of most of its territory, and in the following years was effectively pushed back on all fronts.

From Kabul, the Mughal Timurid Empire was established in 1526 by Babur, a descendant of Timur through his father and possibly a descendant of Genghis Khan through his mother.

Persian became the official state language of the Timurid Empire and served as the language of administration, history, belles lettres, and poetry.

The most famous poet of the Timurid Empire era was Nur ud-Din Jami, the last great medieval Sufi mystic of Persia and one of the greatest in Persian poetry.

Timurid Empire artists refined the Persian art of the book, which combines paper, calligraphy, illumination, illustration and binding in a brilliant and colourful whole.

The Mongol ethnicity of the Chaghatayid and Timurid Empire Khans was the source of the stylistic depiction of Persian art during the Middle Ages.

Timurid Empire architecture is the pinnacle of Islamic art in Central Asia.

Timurid Empire architecture started with the sanctuary of Ahmed Yasawi in present-day Kazakhstan and culminated in Timur's mausoleum Gur-e Amir in Samarkand.