The Timurides or Timourides تیموریان|Teymouriān are the descendants of Tamerlan which, between internal conflicts and external and a few periods of stability, controlled its empire of 1405 with 1507, date on which it fell to the hands from the Uzbek from the dynasty from the Chaybanides, descendants of Gengis Khan. Like their ancestor, they carried the title of large emir .

They initiated one artistic and cultural era brilliant called Renaissance timouride, whose two headlights were Hérat and Samarkand. Three remarkable personalities were:

  • Oulough Beg, governor of Samarkand attached to his/her father Shah Rukh who reigned in Hérat of 1409 with 1447, then large emir of 1447 with 1449, was remarkable a Astronome.
  • Husayn Bayqara, large emir installed with Hérat of 1469 with 1506, was a large patron and made work the poet and Persan mystic Djami, the Turkish poet Mir Alisher Navoï and the painter Behzad, large Master of the miniature Persian.
  • Babur, wire of Omar Sheik II, governor of the Ferghana at 11 years, settled with Kabul in 1504 at the time of advanced Chaybanides and, from there, conquered in 1526 the India North where it founded the dynasty of the Moghols.

List of Timourides

The four wire of Tamerlan were: Djahangir (death in 1376), Omar Sheik Ier (death in 1391), Miran Shah (become insane, died in 1408) and Shah Rukh.

Internal bond

External bonds

  • Genealogy http://perso.wanadoo.fr/steppeasia/genealogie_tamerlan.htm

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