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Tamerlane's Persian Poets and Historians: The Zafarnama and Beyond
Timur's empire was built not only with steel and siege engines, but with ink and paper. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the literary legacy of the Timurid court, focusing on the Zafarnama, or 'Book of Victory', written by Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi in the 15th century. They discuss how Yazdi's chronicle turned Timur's bloody campaigns into epic tales of destiny, and how it was part of a broader Persianate cultural revival under Timur. They contrast Yazdi's hagiographic account with the more critical perspective of Ibn Arabshah, an Arab scholar who survived…
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