1. New Challenges in the 14th Century:
Black Plague
Timur Lang (r )

2. Bubonic plague - buboes
Septicaemic plague
Pneumonic plague

3. 1347 Plague sweeps into the Muslim world
1382 Circassian mamluks take power from
Turkish mamluks in Mamluk Sultanate
Physical and psychological impact

4. Sultan Hasan Mosque/Tomb/Madrasa
(religious college) Complex,
Cairo (bt )
Dome of the Rock (bt. 691)

5. 1361 Timur Lang (Temür Leng/ Tamerlane/
Tamburlaine/Temür the Lame, r )
comes to power
1370 Timur takes control of Transoxiana,
launches campaigns to east and west
1390s Timur crushes Toqtamish of Golden Horde
1398 Timur invades India, sacks Delhi

6. Map Link: The Timurid Empire:
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7. Gur-e Amir Complex, Samarqand (bt. 1403)
1399 Timur destroys Sivas
1400 Timur sacks Aleppo and Damascus
1401 Timur sacks Baghdad
1402 Timur defeats Bayezit at Ankara
Gur-e Amir Complex, Samarqand (bt. 1403)

8. Motives?
State based in Persia and Iraq
Militarised administration
Culture – Shah Rukh (r )

9. Capital in Samarqand
Maintaining support
Erratic religiosity?
Civil war following death

10. New Challenges in the 14th Century:
Black Plague
Timur Lang (r )

11. Nizam al-Din Shami/Nizam-i Shami
(d. before 1412)
Persian chronicler, possibly from Tabriz
Says was one of first to submit to Timur
when Timur arrived at Baghdad in 1393
Later accused of spying for Timur, imprisoned
at Aleppo, so there when Timur took city
in Joined Timur’s retinue

12. Nizam al-Din Shami/Nizam-i Shami
(d. before 1412)
In was commanded by Timur to write
history of his conquests Zafar-Nama,
completed 1404