Al-Maqrīzī’s Biography of Tīmūr
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Mirza Firuz Shah
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Subject:
History
Subclass:
Timured/Mughal
Reign:
Timur The Great 1370–1405
Subject Year (Time):
2015
Author:
Ito, Takao
Languages:
English
Royal Mughal Ref:
ARC-16122021-001
Date of Creation:
December 15, 2015
Description
Abstract
Durar al-ʿuqūd al-farīda fī tarāǧim aʿyān al-mufīda is an Arabic biographical dictionary by a famous historian of the Mamluk Sultanate, al-Maqrīzī, of his contemporaries. This recently published work contains a long biography of Tīmūr, or Tamerlane, the founder of the Timurid dynasty. In discussing the biography, this article presents some interesting and original details: First, it reviews the editions of Durar al-ʿuqūd that have been published to date; second, it gives an outline of Tīmūr’s biography; after that, it scrutinizes al-Maqrīzī’s sources for Tīmūr’s life and then the relations between his and other Arabic biographies of Tīmūr; lastly, it considers the value of the work.
Key words
Tīmūr; al-Maqrīzī; biography; historiography; Mamluk Sultanate
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