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

This rigorous scholarly appraisal of the legendary biographies of Tamerlane is the first of its kind in any language.

A powerful account of the life of Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405), the last master nomadic power, one of history’s most extreme tyrants, and the subject of Ma

The great nomad conqueror Tamerlane rose to power in 1370 in the ruins of the Mongol Empire and led his armies of conquest from Russia to India, from Turkestan

An anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. It illustrates important aspects of the social, political, and economic history of Isl