King of the Golden Horde Jonathan Sumption applauds this attempt to rescue the reputation of Tamerlane

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: August 8, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World

by Justin Marozzi

HarperCollins, pounds 25, 449 pp

pounds 23 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

TAMERLANE HAD an image problem - and still does. Like other Asiatic conquerors, he came from a world without historians, and had no known intimates who could share with us their experience of the private man.

By and large, the sources for his life were written by his enemies. These men, most of them inhabitants of cities and settlements that he conquered, regarded him as a destroyer redeemed only by his contribution to the spread of Islam.

A slightly ...

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