Shah Rukh ibn Timur

شاه رخ بن تيمور

c. 1447 CE · 851 AH

Shah Rukh ibn Timur — ruler of Samarkand, Bukhara and the East after his father, whose long reign saw Khurasan flourish; patron of scholarship whose son Ulugh Beg he installed at Samarkand; died 851 1.

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Roles
sultan
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi · Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah · Abu Zayyan Muhammad V, Marinid Sultan

Shah Rukh ibn Timur

The khan Muʿin al-Din Shah Rukh ibn Timur Lang, ruler of Samarqand, Bukhara and other lands. He succeeded his father Timur in the kingdom, and his rule was established in Khurasan and its regions for more than forty years. His days were full of security and justice and support for learning and scholars, until leadership among the rulers of his time came to him. He died in 851 AH 1.

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Child of
تمرلنك
Parent of
Amirzada Ibrahim b. Shah Rukh· Ahmad b. Shah Rukh· ألوغ بك

People and things also explored

The battle of Ankara and the capture of Bayezid the Thunderbolt· Ibn Khaldun's Audience with Timur beneath Damascus· Timur Takes Delhi in 801 AH· The Beginning of Timur's Rise· Timur's Event at Damascus in 803 AH· Ahmad ibn Uways al-Jalayiri· Toqtamish ibn Burdbik, lord of Saray· Ahmad b. Shah Rukh

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 269
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The battle of Ankara and the capture of Bayezid the Thunderbolt

Ankara 1402 — Timur's host broke Bayezid's 120,000 in the July heat as his Tatar and Anatolian levies defected; the Thunderbolt died in chains the next year while Europe's kings congratulated Timur.