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New Challenges in the 14th Century: Black Plague Timur Lang (r. 1361-1405). Bubonic plague - buboes Septicaemic plague Pneumonic plague. 1347 Plague sweeps into the Muslim world 1382 Circassian mamluks take power from Turkish mamluks in Mamluk Sultanate - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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New Challenges in the 14th Century:
Black Plague
Timur Lang (r. 1361-1405)
Bubonic plague - buboes
Septicaemic plague
Pneumonic plague
1347 Plague sweeps into the Muslim world
1382 Circassian mamluks take power fromTurkish mamluks in Mamluk Sultanate
Physical and psychological impact
Sultan Hasan Mosque/Tomb/Madrasa(religious college) Complex,Cairo (bt. 1356-63)
Dome of the Rock (bt. 691)
1361 Timur Lang (Temür Leng/ Tamerlane/Tamburlaine/Temür the Lame, r. 1361-1405)comes to power
1370 Timur takes control of Transoxiana,launches campaigns to east and west
1390s Timur crushes Toqtamish of Golden Horde
1398 Timur invades India, sacks Delhi
Map Link: The Timurid Empire:
<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Timurid_Dynasty_821_-_873_%28AH%29.png>
1399 Timur destroys Sivas
1400 Timur sacks Aleppo and Damascus
1401 Timur sacks Baghdad
1402 Timur defeats Bayezit at Ankara
Gur-e Amir Complex, Samarqand (bt. 1403)
Motives?
State based in Persia and Iraq
Militarised administration
Culture – Shah Rukh (r. 1405-47)
Capital in Samarqand
Maintaining support
Erratic religiosity?
Civil war following death
New Challenges in the 14th Century:
Black Plague
Timur Lang (r. 1361-1405)
Nizam al-Din Shami/Nizam-i Shami(d. before 1412)
Persian chronicler, possibly from Tabriz
Says was one of first to submit to Timurwhen Timur arrived at Baghdad in 1393
Later accused of spying for Timur, imprisonedat Aleppo, so there when Timur took cityin 1400. Joined Timur’s retinue
Nizam al-Din Shami/Nizam-i Shami(d. before 1412)
In 1401-2 was commanded by Timur to writehistory of his conquests Zafar-Nama,completed 1404