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Tamerlane and the Mamluk Exchange: Letters Between Two Empires
In this episode of Tamerlane: The Conqueror Who Tried to Rebuild the Mongol Legacy, Lucas and Luna explore a lesser-known facet of Timur's reign: his diplomatic correspondence with the Mamluk Sultanate. While previous episodes covered sieges and battles, this one focuses on the tense exchange of letters between Tamerlane and Sultan Barquq, the founder of the Burji Mamluk dynasty. The letters reveal competing claims to legitimacy—Timur framing himself as a ghazi, a holy warrior, while the Mamluks saw themselves as the true defenders of Islam. We discuss specific documents preserved in…
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