The Renaissance sells dreams. However, few people are informed about another Renaissance, namely the Timurid Renaissance, which left its mark on the history of mankind as well. The Timurid Renaissance was a brilliant artistic, cultural and scientific era established in the 15th century by the Timurids. It is therefore contemporary to the Western Renaissance, writes […]
Today s post is by guest contributor and regular visitor to Asian and African Collections, Sunil Sharma, Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature at Boston University. The British Library has one of the largest collections of manuscripts of the Persian works of Amir Khusraw of Delhi (d. 1325). There are around.
In Uzbekistan to cover the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, I saw the land of Timur whom Indian history books will always remember as the 'plunderer' of Delhi.