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Tamerlane's Body Double: The Conspiracy of the Look-Alike Prince
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore one of the strangest and most persistent legends about Tamerlane's rise: the story that he was not a self-made conqueror at all, but a body double—a lowborn slave or soldier thrust forward to impersonate a missing prince of the Barlas clan. We trace the earliest version of the tale in the writings of the 15th-century historian Ibn Arabshah, who claimed Timur faked his genealogy. We contrast this with the official Timurid narrative in the Zafarnama, which insists he was a direct descendant of the Mongol general Qarachar. We discuss how such a…
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