I was wondering about that. The introduction denies it's a fabrication, for what that's worth. Who is the supposed author?
--- On Sun, 6/15/08, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Tamerlane
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008, 5:41 PM
> 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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