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Captured Persian Geographers and Samarkand's Lost Atlas
In this episode of Tamerlane: The Conqueror Who Tried to Rebuild the Mongol Legacy, Lucas and Luna shift focus from captive artisans to captive scholars—specifically Persian geographers. After sacking Shiraz and Isfahan, Tamerlane brought cartographers like Rukn al-Din al-Naqqash and others to his capital, where they compiled maps and geographical texts for his military campaigns. Lucas explains how these scholars merged Ptolemaic tradition with Islamic geography, creating detailed route maps from Central Asia to the Mediterranean. But much of their work was lost after the Timurid collapse…
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