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Tamerlane's Captive Artisans: The Deportation That Built an Empire
Tamerlane didn't just conquer cities—he systematically depopulated them of their skilled craftsmen. This episode traces the forced migration of weavers, glassblowers, and metalworkers from Damascus, Tabriz, and Delhi to his capital at Samarkand. We examine the logistics of mass deportation, the legal fiction under Yassa that classified captives as 'gifts,' and the cultural consequences: a Timurid renaissance built on coerced labor. Specific cases include the silk weavers of Aleppo relocated to Transoxiana and the stonemasons whose fingerprints appear on Samarkand's…
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