Timur, or Tamerlane, is one of Central Asia’s most famous historical figures. Born around 1336 (though some place his birth in the late 1320s) amid the squabbling remains of the Mongol Empire, Timur ...

A campaign that lasted weeks but left a capital gutted, a dynasty broken, and North India permanently altered.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Between 1357 and 1405 Timur the Lame conquered most of the Islamic world and radically transformed the history ...

Timur, better known as, Taimur was given the title of ‘Taimur Lang’, because his one leg got wound in the battlefield and compelled the Taimur to walk with a limp. Taimur was an invader from Central ...

Over 100 years after his death and thousands of miles from the extreme edges of his empire, Timur showed up in a British play. Christopher Marlowe’s 1587 Tamburlaine the Great, a play in two parts, ...