[lbo-talk] Tamerlane

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sun Jun 15 14:41:38 PDT 2008


On Sunday, June 15 2008, Chris Doss wrote:


> I've been reading the Autobiography of Tamerlane, and it's really
> interesting. Has anybody read this? I had no idea the Master of the
> World and Conquerer of Nations was so philosophically inclined.

You know it's a fabrication and not really his autobiography, right? So you can't trust it as a record of his internal musings. But it is supposed to be fairly accurate as an external biography, and Timur was steeped in Persian culture.

Michael



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