These memoirs present Timur, the Tamerlane of European legend, narrating his own rise: his councils, campaigns against the Jetes, alliance and rivalry with Amir Husayn, and the institutes by which he ruled. They reached Europe through a Persian version made in the seventeenth century, and scholars have long doubted that Timur wrote them.
A curious document for readers of Central Asian history and of early Orientalist translation, best read with its disputed origin in mind. Download the free EPUB.