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Timur's Forgotten Architect: The Man Who Built Samarkand
While history remembers Timur as a destroyer, the true story of Samarkand’s rebirth belongs to Amir Kulal, a master builder from Khorasan. This episode explores how Timur bypassed traditional aristocratic power structures to commission a new class of professional artisans and engineers, fundamentally changing the urban landscape of Transoxiana. We trace Kulal’s journey from a humble stucco worker to the chief architect of the Bibi-Khanym Mosque, one of the most ambitious construction projects of the medieval world. Through the eyes of the Spanish diplomat Ruy González de Clavijo, who…
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