The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane

The first full study of the great nomad conqueror, Tamerlane.

Beatrice Forbes Manz (Author)

9780521633840, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 March 1999

248 pages, 4 maps
21.6 x 16.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.32 kg

'Beatrice Manz has established the standards and criteria upon which all future studies of the warlord conqueror must be based.' John E. Woods, International Journal of Middle-East Studies

The great nomad conqueror Tamerlane rose to power in 1370 in the ruins of the Mongol Empire and led his armies of conquest from Russia to India, from Turkestan to Anatolia. In this, the first full study of an extraordinary person, Beatrice Forbes Manz examines Tamerlane as the founder of a nomad conquest dynasty and as a supremely talented individual, raising many current questions about the mechanisms of state formation, the dynamics of tribal politics, and the relations of tribes to central leadership.

1. Introduction
2. The Ulus Chaghatay in the mid fourteenth century
3. Temür's rise to power: the politics of the Ulus Chaghatay
4. Temür's army of conquest: the Ulus Chaghatay
5. Temür's army of conquest: outsiders and conquered peoples
6. Structure and function in Temür's administration
7. The struggle for succession
8. Conclusion
Appendix A. The powers of the Ulus Chaghatay
Appendix B. Members of Temür's family
Appendix C. The formal administrative structure
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC], Asian history [HBJF]