The Legendary Biographies of Tamerlane: Islam and Heroic Apocrypha in Central AsiaTimur (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 remarkable and rigorous scholarly appraisal of the legendary biographies of Tamerlane is the first of its kind in any language. The book sheds light not only on the character of Tamerlane and how he was remembered and championed by many generations after his demise, but also on the era in which the biographies were written and how they were conceived and received by the local populace during an age of crisis in their own history. |
Contents
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The Origins and Usages of T m rs Heroic Apocrypha | 22 |
Tm rs Birth and Childhood | 54 |
Youth | 76 |
Inauguration and Kingship | 92 |
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The Legendary Biographies of Tamerlane: Islam and Heroic Apocrypha in ... Ron Sela No preview available - 2011 |
The Legendary Biographies of Tamerlane: Islam and Heroic Apocrypha in ... Ron Sela No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
Abdall h Abu'l-Fay Amir Ch Amir Husayn Amir T m r Asia's Asian audience Bah dur Balkh Baraq Khan Bay n-Qul Khan Baybars birth Bregel Brill Bukhara Cambridge Central Asia Chaghatay Chinggis Khan Chinggisid Culture decline descendants DeWeese dream dynasty eighteenth century epic Golden Horde H tif hib-qir historiography History Holiness India Iran Islamic Kashm Khan's khanate kharz Khiva Khoja king kingship legendary biographies Leiden lineage m r's m r's biographies Manghït manuscripts Mawarannahr Mongol Moscow Mughal Muhammad Muslim narrative oral Ottoman Persian political popular prophets Qar ch Qazaqs region Roman de Baybars ruler Russian Safavid Samarqand Sayf al-D Sayyid scholars Shahr-i Sabz shaykh sixteenth slave sources Soviet story storyteller Studies Sufi Sufi shaykhs Sult Sultan Tamerlane Taragh i Bah Tashkent Tegina Begïm throne Timurid Tm r-n Tm r's Toqtamïsh Khan tradition tribal tribe Turkic University Press Uzbek Uzbekistan Yazd