15 Facts About Timurid Renaissance

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Timurid Renaissance was a historical period in Asian and Islamic history spanning the late 14th, the 15th, and the early 16th centuries.

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Timurid Renaissance was marked slightly earlier than the Renaissance movement in Europe.

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The Timurid Renaissance reached its peak in the 15th century, after the end of the period of Mongol invasions and conquests.

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Timurid Renaissance differed from previous Buyid dynasty cultural and artistic developments in that it was not a direct revival of classical models, but rather a broadening of their cultural appeal by including more colloquial styles in Persian language.

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The Timurid Renaissance was inherited by Mughal India and had significant influence on the other states of the Age of the Islamic Gunpowders .

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Timurid Renaissance Empire was founded by Amir Tamerlane in 1370 after the conquest of several Ilkhanate successor states.

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Timurid Renaissance art absorbed and improved upon the traditional Persian concept of the "Arts of the Book".

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Timurid Renaissance was renowned as a benefactor and patron of learning in his kingdom.

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Timurid Renaissance has been described as "the quintessential Timurid ruler of the later period in Transoxiana" and his sophisticated court and generous artistic patronage was a source of admiration, particularly from his cousin, Babur of Mughal India.

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Timurid Renaissance architecture drew on the aspects of the Seljuk architecture.

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

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

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Timurid Renaissance got immense support from both Emperor Shah Rukh and Queen Goharshad, who were very interested in the sciences and encouraged theirs court to study the various fields in great depth.

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Timurid Renaissance produced tables dealing with transformations between coordinate systems on the celestial sphere, such as the transformation from the ecliptic coordinate system to the equatorial coordinate system.

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Timurid Renaissance found empirical evidence for the Earth's rotation through his observation on comets and concluded, on the basis of empirical evidence rather than speculative philosophy, that the moving Earth theory is just as likely to be true as the stationary Earth theory.

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