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Tamerlane |
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Tamerlane (or Timur Leng or Timur the Lame) (1335-1405)Turco-Mongol ruler of Samarkand, in Uzbekistan, from 1369 who conquered Persia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia. He defeated the Golden Horde in 1395, sacked Delhi in 1398, invaded Syria and Anatolia, and captured the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I (c. 1360-1403) in Ankara in 1402; he died invading China. Tamerlane claimed to be a descendant of the Mongol leader Genghis Khan, and was the great-grandfather of Babur (1483-1530), founder of the Mogul Empire of India. His descendants ruled Persia. |
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| Its title was "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Other Poems. The plain of Esdraelon--"the battle-field of the nations"--only sets one to dreaming of Joshua, and Benhadad, and Saul, and Gideon; Tamerlane, Tancred, Coeur de Lion, and Saladin; the warrior Kings of Persia, Egypt's heroes, and Napoleon--for they all fought here. Historically, Tamerlane was a Mongol (Scythian) leader who in the fourteenth century overran most of Western Asia and part of Eastern Europe in much the way indicated in the play, which is based on sixteenth century Latin lives of him. |
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