The Timurid Case Study

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Contemporary studies of the Timurid dynasty in Iran and Central Asia have long been dominated by nationalist, sectarian and ideological agendas which typically present the empire of the Timurid as an exclusively Iranian phenomenon. This paper re-evaluates the political and religious interpretation through the authoritative and administrative methods in the midst of Timur and Shuh Rukh reign, how did they keep up their empire through the political results in Central Asia and Western Persia. This paper display’s Timur and Shuh Rukh as an independent model, in like manner with the capital cities and territories; my proposal for that is to illustrate an analysis of the circumstances that appear at the particular time. My investigation will merge …show more content…

We have to admit that the Middle East in general, and specifically the Persian region and Central Asia have the same duplicated historic occasions where it relies on nomadic and semi-independent nobles that did not have any direct interaction with the central government. As demonstrated by Roy Mottahedehs, Loyalty and Leadership in Early Islamic Society displays the concept of social and ideological loyalties where the population is responsible in creating their leader that could be presumed as a military figure or an individual Shayik of having the same tribe title and religious belief. This, in fact, did exist at the beginning stages of Islamic history, were loyalties intend to be classified depending on their dynasties origin or religious belief. Loyalty is a priority for the ruler to commit on especially if he was an individual ruler of a different ideology where it ordain giving security and prosperity among these nomadic ethnic groups and religious

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