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Tamerlane's Captive Persian Bureaucrats: The Diwan of Samarkand
How did a crippled Turkic warlord from the steppe run an empire that stretched from Damascus to Delhi? In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the administrative backbone of Tamerlane's realm: the Persian-trained bureaucrats he forcibly resettled in Samarkand. We trace the story of one such captive, the historian and vizier Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi, who spent decades organizing tax registers, imperial correspondence, and the logistics of conquest from the Timurid diwan. We compare Timur's reliance on Persian civil servants to the Mongol Yassa tradition, and ask whether his empire was…
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