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This dissertation examines the life and works of the Timurid historian and intellectual Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi ( ca. 770s-858/ca. 1370s-1454), who is best known as the author of the Z[dotbelow]afarnama which is a biographical account of Timur (d. 807/1405), the founder of the …

The image of Samarqand is intimately tied to the figure of Timur (1335-1405). More than the political and administrative headquarters of his vast empire, Samarqand under Timur's patronage became the artistic and cultural capital of the broad geographical area of northeast Iran k…

This dissertation examines the Ottoman transition to a new mode of kingship in the first decades of the sixteenth century by examining the life and work of Idris Bidlisi (861-926/1457-1520), one of the most dynamic scholars and statesmen of the period. It situates Bidlisi’s life…

`Abd al-Rah[dotbelow]man Jam i (d. 898/1492), an outstanding late medieval intellectual and poet from Central Asia, had a major influence on the intellectual, religious, and literary history of the Islamic civilization. The current study provides a detailed biography of Jami in …