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New Challenges in the 14th Century: Black Plague Timur Lang (r. 1361-1405)

New Challenges in the 14th Century: Black Plague Timur Lang (r. 1361-1405). Bubonic plague - buboes Septicaemic plague Pneumonic plague. 1347 Plague sweeps into the Muslim world 1382 Circassian mamluks take power from Turkish mamluks in Mamluk Sultanate

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New Challenges in the 14th Century: Black Plague Timur Lang (r. 1361-1405)

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  1. New Challenges in the 14th Century: Black Plague Timur Lang (r. 1361-1405)

  2. Bubonic plague - buboes Septicaemic plague Pneumonic plague

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

  4. Sultan Hasan Mosque/Tomb/Madrasa (religious college) Complex, Cairo (bt. 1356-63) Dome of the Rock (bt. 691)

  5. 1361 Timur Lang (Temür Leng/ Tamerlane/ Tamburlaine/Temür the Lame, r. 1361-1405) 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: <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/ Timurid_Dynasty_821_-_873_%28AH%29.png>

  7. 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. 1405-47)

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

  10. New Challenges in the 14th Century: Black Plague Timur Lang (r. 1361-1405)

  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 1400. Joined Timur’s retinue

  12. Nizam al-Din Shami/Nizam-i Shami (d. before 1412) In 1401-2 was commanded by Timur to write history of his conquests Zafar-Nama, completed 1404

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