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63-579: Baysunghur was a son of Shah Rukh , the ruler of Iran and Transoxiana , and Shah Rukh's most prominent wife, Gawhar Shad . In the view of modern historians, Baysunghur was actually a better statesman than his more famous elder brother, Ulugh Beg , who inherited Shah Rukh's throne, but who "must have envied his younger brother, Baisunghur, whom his father never saddled with major responsibilities, which left him free to build his elegant madrasas in Herat, gather his ancient books, assemble his artists, and drink". He

126-421: A Timurid victory and the installation of a Qara Qoyunlu prince, Abu Said , as a puppet ruler. However, Qara Iskander reoccupied the city of Tabriz two years later and had Abu Said executed. This action prompted the third and final campaign in 1434, in which Qara Iskander was once more forced to flee. He was later assassinated by his son Qubad in the fortress of Alinja . Although this campaign did not result in

189-586: A campaign against the Ming Dynasty . He was reported to have said on his deathbed that he "had no other desire than to see the Mirza Shah Rukh once more" and had lamented the fact that he did not have time to do so. Timur had no unambiguously appointed heir at the time of his death; as a result, a succession dispute erupted among his surviving sons and grandsons. Khalil Sultan proclaimed himself emperor at Tashkent soon after his grandfather's death and seized

252-443: A complex headdress , fashioned from red fabric ornamented with pearls, rubies, turquoise, feathers, and held together with gold wire. Clavijo estimated about 300 hundred attendants making up her royal suite. Her doubly screened face — one screen a cloth veil, the other a thick layer of applied make-up — concealed her true identity. The face that dimly showed beneath her veil was so thickly covered with white lead to protect from

315-457: A final resolution of the Turkoman issue, it did achieve stability in the region for the remainder of Shah Rukh's reign with the installation of Qara Iskander's less bellicose brother Jahan Shah as the Turkoman ruler. The Hurufis were a Sufi sect who based their doctrine on the mysticism of letters. In the late 14th century, the group was accused of heresy by traditional Islamic scholars. As

378-472: A great feast, one of the several arranged at the Khan-i-Gil (lit. Mine of clay) meadow located outside Samarkand. Clavijo offers an expanded description of Saray's procession into the pavilion and of what she was wearing. Joined by fifteen servants to carry her train , eunuchs , and a male servant carrying a "shade" (sombra), Saray Mulk Khanum was dressed in red silk, her face covered by a white veil. She wore

441-401: A large amount of authority in court. Under her influence, low-ranking individuals were given high positions instead of Timur's old nobles. Additionally, several of the old emperor's widows and concubines were remarried (somewhat forcefully) to men of undistinguished backgrounds. Following a famine which further spread discontent among the populace, Khalil Sultan was eventually taken captive by

504-472: A petition, before stabbing him in the stomach. Lur however, failed to give a fatal blow and was quickly killed by Shah Rukh's servant. Shah Rukh recovered within a few days and an investigation was launched, which linked Lur to the Hurufis as well as to the family of Astarabadi. There was an immediate backlash against the sect, which resulted in the execution of Astarabadi's grandson, Azud. High-ranking members of

567-451: A prefix meaning 'the best, greatest, main', etc. Ex. شاهکار shahkar , masterpiece" or "a bridegroom" (synonymous with داماد dâmâd ); رخ rokh means "the face or figure; also, the cheek; the countenance", "the castle or rook " in chess; and the roc ,"a fabulous bird; perhaps the condor". This is also the Persian term for the chess move " castling ". According to Ibn 'Arabshah , Timur, who

630-457: A prominent calligrapher under the patronage of Prince Baysunghur , also being arrested and interrogated. The extent to which the Hurufis were involved in the assassination attempt has not yet been clearly established. However, the subsequent purges served to worsen the already strained relations between the Timurid court and the intellectuals of the empire. In the early part of his reign, in what

693-451: A result of his western campaigns and wielded great authority at Court. As Timur's chief consort, Saray additionally held the title of "Great Empress" similar to the title held by Genghis Khan's chief wife, Börte . The Spanish ambassador, Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo , who was sent by Henry III of Castile to visit Timur's court in 1405, called Saray, "The Grand Khanum". In May 1394, Saray along with Timur's other wives followed her husband with

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756-471: A result, in 1394 the founder of the movement, Fazlallah Astarabadi , had been arrested and executed on Timur's orders by his son Miran Shah. The death of their leader led Astarabadi's followers to have a specific hatred against the Timurids . While leaving a mosque in 1426, Shah Rukh became the victim of an assassination attempt. The attacker, Ahmed Lur , approached the emperor under the pretence of presenting

819-429: Is exalted as a man of great piety, diplomacy, and modesty—a model Islamic ruler who repaired much of the physical and psychological damage caused by his father." Shah Rukh was born on 20 August 1377, the youngest of Timur 's four sons. In Persian , his name's elements have multiple meanings: شاه shah means "a king, a sovereign. [specifically], shah , title of the ruler of Persia ", "the king " in chess , "used as

882-757: The Aq Qoyunlu , India , Hurmuz and (in the early part of his reign) the Ottoman Empire made homage to him. Successive Sultans of Delhi , starting with Khizr Khan , exchanged embassies with the Timurid court and swore their loyalty to the emperor, while the Sultan of Bengal , Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah , had sought his military support. Relations with the Mamluks of Egypt , however, were increasingly tense due to Shah Rukh's attempts to assert dominance. They eventually normalised on

945-600: The Gawhar Shad Mausoleum in Herat. When Ulugh Beg captured the city the following year, he ordered his father's body to be exhumed before reburying it with Timur's in the Gur-e-Amir in Samarqand . The succession struggle among Shah Rukh's family continued for several years, initially between Ulugh Beg and Ala al-Dawla, in which the former emerged victorious. However, he was murdered by his son Abdal-Latif in 1449, and in

1008-583: The Indian campaign, Saray Mulk Khanum and Ulugh accompanied Timur only as far as Kabul . In August 1398, Timur sent them back to Samarkand from the neighbourhood of Kabul. Saray did not have any children with Timur, though she is sometimes referred to as the mother of her husband's youngest son, Shahrukh Mirza , who was actually born of a concubine. Even if Saray had any children with her husband, they did not survive, and neither did Tukal-Khanum's, and yet their power and influence were well noted by foreign visitors to

1071-613: The Jalayirids and the Qara Qoyunlu , who took advantage of the death of the old emperor to seize territory. Miran Shah was killed in battle in 1408 whilst attempting to repel the invaders, with Abu Bakr dying similarly the year after. In the years following Timur's death, Shah Rukh and Khalil Sultan had a series of unproductive negotiations as well as many military encounters, with Khalil Sultan frequently emerging victorious. During this time, other pretenders also pursued their own claims to

1134-506: The Ottoman Empire , which culminated in the Battle of Ankara in 1402. Shah Rukh commanded the left wing of the army, Miran Shah the right and Timur himself in the centre. The vanguard was headed by two of Shah Rukh's nephews. The battle resulted in a Timurid victory, as well as the capture and subjugation of the Ottoman Sultan, Bayezid I . Timur died in 1405, whilst leading his army east in

1197-696: The Qara Qoyunlu (Black Sheep Turkoman), who had defeated and killed Shah Rukh's brother Miran Shah several years previously. With the conquests of several prominent cities such as Baghdad , Qazvin and Diyarbakır , the Qara Qoyunlu had established themselves as dangerous neighbours to the Timurids. This threat was one which remained unresolved for decades. Shah Rukh made many attempts to pacify his western border, both through political and military means (having launched three campaigns against Azerbaijan), none of which proved entirely successful. Qara Yusuf died during

1260-529: The Timurid dynasty in 1370. However, Shah Rukh ruled only over the eastern portion of the empire established by his father, comprising most of Persia and Transoxiana , the western territories having been lost to invaders in the aftermath of Timur's death. In spite of this, Shah Rukh's empire remained a cohesive dominion of considerable extent throughout his reign, as well as a dominant power in Asia . Shah Rukh controlled

1323-563: The ughruq to Armenia and Transcaucasia where Ibrahim was born. In September, they returned to Sultaniya , but some time later were again summoned to join Timur. In the spring of 1395, both the Saray and Tukal with the children were sent to Samarkand, where Shahrukh had been staying since the autumn of 1394. In 1396, they were all in Khuzar , meeting Timur on his return from his "Five Years" campaign. During

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1386-706: The Court. It was the two Chingisid princesses' personal qualities and pedigree that allowed them to develop such a prestigious dynastic position, since with Timurid consorts maternity was not in itself a path to power. Upon the birth of Shahrukh's eldest son, Ulugh Beg , in 1394, he was also, like his father, placed in Saray's care and grew up under the supervision of the Empress. Although the Spanish ambassador, Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo , probably did not intend it, his description of "Cano" (The Great Khanum), Timur's chief wife, as she entered

1449-682: The Islamic and Persian styles of Sultan and Padshah . Shah Rukh's religious advisor Jalal-Din al-Qayini, described the abolishment of the Mongol tribunals in 1411: "His Majesty’s correct thinking on the subject of giving currency to the Sharia and reviving the customs of the Sunna has progressed so far at this time that, in Dhul-Qada 813 ( i.e., February–March 1411 ), he abolished the yarghu court of investigation and

1512-644: The Sun, that it looked as if it were made of paper. One of the most important buildings of the late 14th century in Samarkand was the Khanum madrasa , opposite the great mosque of Timur. The madrasa was commissioned by Empress Saray in c. 1397 as she was interested in patronizing education and was built by her orders at the capital of the Timurid Empire: Samarkand. Saray had commissioned many other buildings, but only

1575-542: The Yarghu Tribunal which (God preserve us!) had for a long time exercised its tyranny over the minds of rulers and polluted the lands of Islam, and no creature has the power [to conduct] this type of interrogation except in secret." Shah Rukh's wife, Gawhar Shad , funded the construction of two mosques and theological colleges in Mashhad and Herat. The Gawhar Shad Mosque was finished in 1418. The mixed ethnic origins of

1638-497: The ascension of Sultan Jaqmaq, under whom the two rulers were amicable, but equal. Soon after suppressing Sultan Muhammad 's revolt, Shah Rukh, by this point weakened by ill-health, died in his winter quarters in Rayy in March 1447. Despite initial attempts to conceal it, news of the emperor's death quickly spread. Chaos erupted in the military camp, rendering transport of Shah Rukh's body to

1701-581: The capital for burial impossible. It was only on the third day following his death that the body, accompanied by the now-dowager empress Gawhar Shad and Shah Rukh's grandson Abdal-Latif , began its journey east. However, within a few days Abdal-Latif took both his grandmother and the corpse hostage, possibly in the hopes of launching his own bid for the vacant throne, or to support that of his father, Shah Rukh's last surviving son Ulugh Beg . Ala al-Dawla , another grandson, defeated his cousin's troops and liberated Gawhar Shad, and afterwards had Shah Rukh interred in

1764-537: The cities of Isfahan and Kerman . Bayqara , after his initial defeat in Fars, rebelled once more soon after in Shiraz. These insurrections even continued into Shah Rukh's old age. In 1446, at nearly seventy years old, he had to march against his grandson Sultan Muhammad , who had revolted in the empire's western provinces. Shah Rukh's reign saw a marked improvement in economic standards and cultural achievements in many areas of

1827-489: The customs of the törä which had been observed by Turko-Mongolian rulers since ancient times." The Timurid author Sain ad-Din Ali Turka Isfahani praised Shah Rukh for ruling by Islamic Law in the following words: “Absolutely everyone with a legal case has it heard in accordance with the Sharia, and thanks to the felicity of the favour of this Faith-promoting padshah (i.e. Shahrukh), not a trace has remained anywhere of

1890-456: The empire. Although this may partly be accredited to Shah Rukh's more diplomatic character in contrast to the ruthlessness of Timur, evidence does not assign Shah Rukh with superior skill as a statesman. It is instead believed that other influences on his government led to the relative success of his rule. These include his empress, Gawhar Shad , who along with her sons and some state officials, maintained orderly continuity of state affairs. Some of

1953-704: The exchange of gifts. Shah Rukh sent two letters in Arabic & Persian to the Yongle emperor inviting him to Islam & praising the virtues of Islamic Law (as opposed to the Yasa ). The letters were also meant to assert Shah Rukh's independence & to clarify that the Timurids were not the vassals of the Ming dynasty. Through his promotion of commercial and political relations with neighbouring kingdoms, Shah Rukh also maintained contact with several other contemporary rulers. Monarchs of

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2016-451: The first of the campaigns in November 1420, which ended in the Timurid capture of Azerbaijan and Armenia. However, less than a year later Shah Rukh was forced to face off a rebellion by the late Turkoman prince's sons. One of these sons, Qara Iskander , continued his attempts to reassert Turkoman authority over the following years, necessitating the second campaign in 1429. This too resulted in

2079-464: The great pavilion serves as a potent metaphor for much that he witnessed during his sojourn in Samarkand, the capital of Timurid Empire, between 8 September and 20 November 1404. As the ambassador of Henry III of Castile , Clavijo enjoyed generous access to the life and ceremony of the Timurid imperial court and left one of the most detailed and lengthy accounts of their settings. "Cano" identifiable as Empress Saray, had come to join her husband, Timur, for

2142-660: The group were subject to extensive interrogations. These eventually extended beyond the sect, with many intellectuals residing in Herat having to defend themselves against accusations of blasphemy. These included the Persian historian Sharaf-ud-din Ali Yazdi , author of the Zafarnama , and his teacher Sain-ud-din Turka. The prominent poet and Sufi, Qasem-e Anvar was expelled from the capital on Shah Rukh's orders. These accusations even went beyond Shah Rukh's court in Herat, with Ma'ruf-i Khattat,

2205-652: The highest state officials appear to have been unusually talented individuals who were able to endure in their positions for several decades. These include Jalal-ud-din Firuz Shah, who was supreme commander of the army for thirty-five years, Ghiyath al-Din Pir Ahmad Khvafi , supreme secretary for thirty-one years and Amir Alika Kokultash, head of state finance for forty-three years. In regards to his policies, Shah Rukh distanced himself from Timur, with less importance being placed on Mongol concepts of authority. He abandoned

2268-409: The institution of a figurehead Khan and replaced the Mongol tribunals with Sharia courts. Like his father, Shah Rukh was married to a Mongol princess; Malikat Agha , daughter of Khizr Khoja and widow of his brother Umar Shaikh Mirza I . He did not however, claim the title of Küregen (son-in-law) which had been enjoyed by Timur. He similarly did not employ Timur's title of Amir , instead adopting

2331-677: The last Khan of the Chagatai Khanate . Saray's grandfather was Khan Yasa'ur , her father's predecessor and a great-great-grandson of Chagatai Khan . She was therefore, a direct descendant of Genghis Khan , the Great Khan (Emperor) and founder of the Mongol Empire . Saray was thus, a member of the House of Borjigin , the most renowned family clan in Eurasia . Being the daughter of a Khan, Saray held

2394-510: The latter never having incurred his displeasure. In 1397, Shah Rukh was appointed governor of Khorasan by his father, with his viceregal capital being Herat . Although this was a significant region, it was also the same post that had been awarded to Shah Rukh's brother Miran Shah when the latter had been thirteen years old. Shah Rukh was never promoted beyond this position during his father's lifetime. Further to this, during Timur's campaign to China , Shah Rukh's young sons took pride of place in

2457-460: The main trade routes between Asia and Europe , including the legendary Silk Road , and became immensely wealthy as a result. He chose to have his capital not in Samarqand as his father had done, but in Herat . This was to become the political centre of the Timurid empire and residence of his principal successors, though both cities benefited from the wealth and privilege of Shah Rukh's court. Shah Rukh

2520-582: The most important school of artists in Iran, merging the two styles. Baysunghur had five wives: Baysunghur had three sons: Baysunghur had eight daughters: Shah Rukh Shah Rukh or Shahrukh Mirza ( Persian : شاهرخ , Šāhrokh ; 20 August 1377 – 13 March 1447) was the ruler of the Timurid Empire between 1405 and 1447. He was the son of the Central Asian conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), who founded

2583-563: The powerful emir Khudaidad Hussain, leader of the Dughlat tribe and a former mentor of the prince. Hussain took Khalil Sultan to Ferghana and had him proclaimed ruler in Andijan . Samarqand, having been left abandoned, was taken unopposed by Shah Rukh. When he later captured Shadi Mulk, Khalil Sultan was forced to go to his uncle in Samarqand and submit to him. The prince had his wife returned to him and

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2646-505: The preceding era of Timur and the Hongwu Emperor (the first emperor of Ming China) who almost started a war with each other (which was only averted by the death of Timur). Chinese embassies, led by Chen Cheng , visited Samarqand and Herat several times in 1414–1420, while a large embassy sent by Shah Rukh (and immortalized by its diarist, Ghiyāth-ud-dīn Naqqāsh ) travelled to Beijing in 1419–22 and were hosted with lavish banquets and

2709-418: The prince by this point had acquired a reputation for excessive modesty as well as personal piety. It might also have been this Islamic adherence and subsequent rejection of the laws of Genghis Khan , which had always been so strongly revered by Timur, that had resulted in the alienation of Shah Rukh from his father. Shah Rukh, alongside most of the royal family, accompanied Timur west in his campaign against

2772-429: The procession while he himself was passed over. Historical sources give no explanation for their relationship, though there is some evidence which suggests that it was Shah Rukh's ancestry which had affected Timur's lack of favour, being the son of a concubine as opposed to a freeborn wife. Alternatively, there have been suggestions that Timur believed Shah Rukh did not possess the personal qualities required for ruling;

2835-574: The right to the surname Gurgan ("son-in-law") of Qazan Khan, which appears on his coins and often in the Mamluk sources. The title of gurgan was very important for Timur because it was indicative of his relations with the family of the Chughtai . In 1397, Timur married Tukal-Khanum, a daughter of the Mongol Khan Khizr Khoja , who skipped over several other wives due to her exalted lineage and took

2898-547: The royal treasury, as well as Timur's imperial capital Samarqand . Shah Rukh marched his army out of Herat to the Oxus river but made no offensive move against his nephew at this point. This was likely due to Miran Shah, Khalil Sultan's father, who posed a serious threat as he, along with his other son Abu Bakr, had led an army out of Azerbaijan in support of the younger prince. They were both forced to withdraw prior to joining with Khalil Sultan however, due to invasions to their rear by

2961-483: The ruling dynasty led to a distinctive character in its cultural outlook, which was a combination of Persian civilization and art, with borrowings from China , and literature written in Persian as well as Chagatay and Arabic . Shah Rukh commissioned the production of a number of historical and geographic works by Hafiz-i Abru . Among them is Tāriḵ-e Šāhroḵ(i) , the history of Shah Rukh's reign through 1413-14 (816 AH). It

3024-589: The second place in the harem, inferior in status only to Saray. Saray, therefore, held the position of being Timur's chief consort until his death. Little is known of Saray and Timur's relationship, apart from the fact that she was his confidante and one of his closest advisers, but it is clear that she wielded great influence over her husband and in the Empire. She is also cited by most sources to have been Timur's "favourite" and his beloved wife. Saray also sometimes acted as regent during Timur's absences from Samarkand as

3087-736: The subsequent civil wars, control of the Timurid Empire passed from Shah Rukh's descendants. Soviet anthropologist Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov reconstructed the facial features of Timur, his son Shah Rukh and grandson Ulugh Beg. Relative to the others, Timur appears to have been phenotypically East Asian , while Shah Rukh, the son of a Tajik woman, had more Europoid features. Shah Rukh appeared more similar to brachycephalic Europoids. Shah Rukh's son Ulugh Beg, however, had predominantly Mongoloid features, and no obvious Caucasoid influence. Saray Mulk Khanum Saray Mulk Khanum ( Chagatai and Persian : سرای ملک خانم; c. 1341 – 1408)

3150-420: The throne. Among these was Sultan Husayn Tayichiud , a maternal grandson of Timur who later aligned himself with Khalil Sultan, before betraying him in order to reassert his own claim. Sultan Husayn was defeated by his former ally and fled to Shah Rukh, who had him executed, with his body parts being displayed in the bazaars of Herat. Two more of Timur's grandsons, Iskandar and Pir Muhammad , also made bids for

3213-502: The throne. They were defeated by Shah Rukh and Khalil Sultan respectively, with each being spared by their subjugator. Pir Muhammad was later assassinated by one of his nobles in 1407, while Iskandar was executed in 1415 following a failed rebellion. It was not until 1409 that the war started to turn in Shah Rukh's favour. During this time, Khalil Sultan began to lose support among his emirs in Samarqand. His wife Shadi Mulk had been given

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3276-481: The title of Khanum ("daughter of a Khan or princess") by birth. Before her marriage to Timur, Saray had been previously married to her husband's predecessor, Amir Husayn of Balkh. When in 1370, Timur defeated and thereafter executed Husayn after the Siege of Balkh , he seized the harem of his predecessor and took to himself the latter's wives, one of whom being Saray Mulk Khanum. Saray was five years younger than Timur and

3339-434: Was a great patron of the arts and sciences, which flourished under his rule. He spent his reign focusing on the stability of his lands, as well as maintaining political and economic relations with neighbouring kingdoms. In the view of historians Thomas W. Lentz and Glenn D. Lowry , "unlike his father, Shahrukh ruled the Timurid empire, not as a Turco-Mongol warlord-conqueror, but as an Islamic sultan. In dynastic chronicles he

3402-485: Was a talented chess player, was involved in a match when he received the news of Shah Rukh's birth, using this chess move as a name for the newborn child. Some sources suggest that his mother was the Empress Saray Mulk Khanum , formerly a Chaghatai princess and Timur's chief consort; she had been captured by Timur from the harem of Amir Husayn Qara'unas several years prior to Shah Rukh's birth. However, it

3465-505: Was also subdued. The area under Shah Rukh's rule continued to be extended and consolidated over the following years, either through voluntary subjugation by minor rulers or through alliances. By 1420, the eastern portion of Timur's empire, as well as central and southern Persia, had been brought under Shah Rukh's rule. However, despite Shah Rukh's successes, the western portion of the empire, including Azerbaijan and Mesopotamia , remained out of his control. These were held by Qara Yusuf of

3528-434: Was appointed governor of Rayy , but died in 1411, with Shadi Mulk committing suicide soon after. Following the deaths of Khalil Sultan, Sultan Husayn and Pir Muhammad, Shah Rukh had no immediate Timurid rivals to contest his rule and he began his reign as Timur's successor. However, rather than ruling from Samarqand as his father had done, Shah Rukh held court in Herat, which had formerly been his viceregal capital. Samarqand

3591-415: Was instead bestowed on his eldest son Ulugh Beg , who was appointed governor of Transoxiana . The new emperor began his reign by launching expeditions against regions which had begun to break away during the war of succession. Fars , which was held by Shah Rukh's nephew Bayqara , was taken in 1414. Two years later Kirman , which had been ruled as an independent kingdom by Sultan Uwais Barlas since 1408,

3654-460: Was later incorporated by its author into larger "universal history" compilations, Majmuʿa-ye Ḥāfeẓ-e Abru (a universal history work) and Majmaʿ al-tawāriḵ [al-solṭāni(ya)] (section Zobdat al-tawāriḵ-e Bāysonḡori ). During Shah Rukh's reign, relations between the Timurid state and Ming China , under the rule of the Yongle Emperor and his descendants, were normalised. This was contrasted by

3717-543: Was likely an attempt to stave off rebellion amongst his relations, Shah Rukh regularly made transfers between the governorships they held. For example, Khalil Sultan was moved from Samarqand to Rayy, Umar Mirza from Azerbaijan to Astrabad , Iskandar Mirza from Ferghana to Hamadan to Shiraz etc. These attempts did not prove to be entirely successful, as Shah Rukh had to repeatedly suppress rebellions by his various family members. Iskandar Mirza, after encouraging his brother to revolt in 1413, himself rebelled and devastated

3780-461: Was said to be very beautiful, sometimes described as possessing "surpassing" beauty. As the daughter of a Khan and a descendant of Genghis Khan, Saray enjoyed the status of Timur's senior wife, although in her first husband's harem the chief wife was a daughter of Khan Tarmashirin , who after Husayn's fall was married to the Jalayir Khan Bahram. Through his marriage to Saray, Timur acquired

3843-569: Was stated by the 15th-century historian Khwandamir that Shah Rukh's mother was a certain Taghay Tarkhan Agha of the Qara Khitai . Khwandamir used a genealogical record written during Shah Rukh's reign as his source for this assertion. Regardless of his maternal origins, the prince was personally raised by Saray Mulk, alongside Timur's grandson Khalil Sultan . Timur appears not to have had particularly close relations with Shah Rukh, despite

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3906-476: Was the empress consort of the Timurid Empire as the chief consort of Timur , also known as Tamerlane the Great, the founder of the Timurid Empire as well as the Timurid dynasty. By birth, she was a princess of Moghulistan as a daughter of Qazan Khan ibn Yasaur and was also a direct descendant of Genghis Khan . Saray Mulk Khanum was born a princess of Moghulistan in c. 1341 to Qazan Khan ibn Yasaur ,

3969-489: Was well-versed in Persian, Arabic, as well his native Chagatai . He was a patron of Persian historians, including Hafiz-i Abru (died 1430), who dedicated his book Zubdat al-tawārīkh-i bāysunghurī to him. Baysunghur was living in Herat as governor by 1417. After taking Tabriz , in 1421 he brought back to Herat a group of Tabrizi artists and calligraphers, formerly working for Ahmad Jalayir , who he installed in Herat to add to his existing artists from Shiraz . They became

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