Islam and Heroic Apocrypha in Central Asia
by
Ron Sela
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
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...