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Instituts politiques et militaires de Tamerlan, proprement appellé Timour

Instituts politiques et militaires de Tamerlan, proprement appellé Timour [Political and military institutions of Tamerlane, known as Timur] / par L. Langlès. - Paris,
1787
Louis-Matthieu Langlès (1763-1824) was an Arabist and the first president of the École spéciale des Langues Orientales in Paris. He translated Instituts politiques et militaires de Tamerlan from Farsi into French.
Tamerlane (1336-1405) was a Mongolian warrior who violently conquered a world empire around what is now Iran. Around the mid-fourteenth century Persia was divided and vulnerable to conquests. Tamerlane seized this opportunity to invade Persia around 1370 and looted the country until his death in 1405. Tamerlane was an even bloodier conqueror than Genghis Khan. In Isfahan, for example, he slaughtered 70,000 people to build towers from their skulls. He conquered a vast area and turned his own town of Samarkand into a magnificent city but made not the slightest effort to forge a lasting empire. Persia was left in ruins.
Call number:
AB F 1469

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