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Timurlane, a Turco-Mongol commander. He began his campaign in the year 773 AH, and died on the night of Wednesday, the seventeenth of Sha'ban in the year 807 AH, as al-Suyuti reports ².

al-Suyuti reports that he was of peasant stock, and grew up as a thief and highwayman. He then joined the service of the master of the sultan's horses, succeeded him after his death, and kept rising. al-Suyuti transmits that he "ruined the lands and destroyed the people". This is the judgement of the historian, not the museum's ².

Ibn al-Imad reports in Shadharat al-Dhahab that he invaded India in the year 801 AH and took Delhi, enslaving a great number of people ³.

He lists the stages of his rule: Khwarazm, then Transoxiana, then Samarqand, then Khurasan, then Herat, then Tabaristan and Gurgan, then Tabriz and Azerbaijan, then Isfahan, then Baghdad, then Sivas, Aleppo and Damascus ⁴.

He also reports that he defeated Toqtamish Khan, lord of Sarai, in his rule in the year 797 AH ⁴. See Toqtamish, lord of Sarai.