TIMUR AND THE PRINCELY VISION, Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century

From Foreword - Timur remains one of the great unknown figures of world history. Better known in Europe and America as Tamerlane, he has been the romanticized subject of plays. In reality Timur was a dynamic, charismatic Central Asian warlord who in the latter part of the fourteenth century embarked on a series of conquest that transformed much of Asia. (Description by http-mart)