Project Gutenberg 2025-05-30 Public domain in the USA. 237 Timur 1336 1405 Aksak Timur Amir Temur Kuragon Tamberlain Tamburlaine Tamerlane Temur Timour Timur, the Great Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusaynī, active 1637 Hussyny, Abu Talib Abu Talib al-Husayni, active 1637 Abou Taleb-Al-Husseini Abū Ṭālib Ḥusaynī Abu Talib Hussyny al-Ḥusaynī, Abū Ṭālib Stewart, Charles 1764 1837 32008852 The Mulfuzāt Timūry = $b or, Autobiographical memoirs of the Moghul emperor Timūr $aLondon :$bOriental translation committee, $c1830. Turgut Dincer, Tim Lindell, Gísli Valgeirsson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Mulfuzāt Timūry = or, Autobiographical memoirs of the Moghul emperor Timūr" by Timūr is a historical autobiographical memoir written in the early 15th century. Dictated in Jagtay Turki and later rendered into Persian (and then English), it blends personal narrative with political “Institutes,” maxims of rule, and religious reflection. It follows the rise of Timūr from Transoxiana, framing conquest through justice, discipline, Islamic piety, and the counsel of saints and omens. Expect genealogy, campaigns, court craft, and guidance for successors. The opening of this chronicle presents the editor’s and translator’s prefaces (stressing sources and authenticity) and Abu Talib Husayni’s statement that he found a Turki original in Yemen and translated it into clear Persian for princes. Timūr’s voice then lays out twelve governing rules—strict justice, truthfulness, compassion, obedience to Islamic law, honoring the Prophet’s descendants, valuing scholars, keeping promises, and shunning greed—alongside the ideal of the just monarch as “Shadow of God” and the need for wise ministers. A sequence of dreams, omens, and saintly endorsements underscores his mandate: visions of the Prophet, the “white standard” of ‘Alī before Anatolia, counsel in dealings with Tughluk Timūr and the Jete, favorable horoscopes, battlefield portents, and episodes that justify both iconoclasm in India and acts of clemency (such as sparing Shiraz at a Syed’s plea). The narrative then turns to his beginnings—his name linked to a Qur’anic verse, early schooling and leadership games, his father’s pious counsel and genealogy, blessings from saints promising dominion, brushes with danger and illness, and training in horsemanship and the arts of war. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/cu31924028544637 20190328143454timur 1830 UK Reading ease score: 38.8 (College-level). Difficult to read. en Timur, 1336-1405 -- Early works to 1800 Asia, Central -- History Asia, Central -- Kings and rulers -- Biography DS Text Category: Biographies Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages Category: History - Royalty Category: History - Warfare 586432 2025-09-30T06:46:27.012443 text/html 555998 2025-05-30T22:45:31 text/html 1212196 2025-09-30T06:46:37.312443 application/epub+zip 1219553 2025-09-30T06:46:29.470477 application/epub+zip 367469 2025-09-30T06:46:28.137470 application/epub+zip 1680624 2025-09-30T06:46:42.865364 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1609908 2025-09-30T06:46:35.912424 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 507311 2025-09-30T06:46:25.592460 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 487251 2025-05-30T22:45:31 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19151 2025-09-30T06:46:43.029387 application/rdf+xml 18764 2025-09-30T06:46:28.430445 image/jpeg 2579 2025-09-30T06:46:28.284450 image/jpeg 1316496 2025-09-30T06:46:27.067449 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia