The Timurid Dynasty: A Handbook Volume I

Timur and His Family

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Timur and His Family is the first comprehensive analysis of the genealogical and dynastic structure of the Timurid empire across Central Asia and Iran. Drawing extensively on multiple manuscripts of Hafiz-i Abru’s Muʿizz al-ansab and framed by thematic introductory chapters, this study repositions kinship as a central category of historical analysis. By foregrounding family relationships alongside state formation, it offers a critical rethinking of social and political organization in pre-modern Islamic societies. An essential contribution to the fields of Central Asian history, Islamic studies, and genealogical scholarship.
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2026
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Evrim Binbaş, Ph.D. (2009), The University of Chicago, teaches Islamic history at the University of Bonn. He publishes on the 15th century Islamic history with a particular focus on the Timurid Empire and the Turkmen federations of the Aqquyunlu and Qaraquyunlu.

John E. Woods, Ph.D. (1974), Princeton University, is professor emeritus of Iranian and Central Asian history at The University of Chicago. He is the foremost historian of the Timurid Empire and his 1976/1999 monograph on the Aqquyunlu dynasty is considered among the classics of Islamıc studies.
List of Figures and Plates
List of Tables
Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1



Chapter 1
 Appendix 1.1: Schematic Representation of the Timurids in HNN
 Appendix 1.2: Timur’s Descendants in YZN
 Appendix 1.3: Comparison of the Foliation of the Paris MS of the HMA with the Foliation and Pagination of the Kazakh Facsimile Edition

Chapter 2
 Appendix 2.1: The Bārūlās/Barlās in Mongolian, Persian, and Chinese Sources
 Appendix 2.2: The Barulas/Barlas in the Yuan Empire to ca. 730/1330
 Appendix 2.3: Dual Kingship in Early Timurid Historiography

Chapter 3
 Appendix 3.1: Exogamous Marriages with Other Peoples
 Appendix 3.2: Timurid Princes with Chinggisid Wives Listed Chronologically
 Appendix 3.3: Levirate Marriages between Timurid Houses
 Appendix 3.4: Remarriage of Other Timurid Widows
 Appendix 3.5: Intra-Dynastic Marriages

Chapter 4

Chapter 5
 Appendix 5.1: Death by Violence
 Appendix 5.2: The First Interregnum, 807–821/1405–1418 (Arranged by Death Dates)
 Appendix 5.3: Rulers of Harat and Samarqand after the Death of Shahrukh

Chapter 6
 Appendix 6.1: TKSA 2575 Facsimile and Transcription

Part 2



Key to the Tables
 Table 1: The Borjigid-Barlas Genealogy
 Table 2: The Barlas People and The Timurid Family
 Table 3: Descendants of Shirgha Barlas
 Table 4: Descendants of Yasunta-Möngke Barlas
 Table 5: Descendants of Lala Barlas
 Table 6: Descendants of Ildar Barlas
 Table 7: Ijil bn Qarachar Barlas
 Table 8: Timur bn Taraghay Barlas
 Table I: The ʿUmar-Shaykhids
 Table II: The Jahangirids
 Table III: The Miranshahids
 Table IV. The Shahrukhids

Index to the Tables

Plates

Bibliography
General Index
Historians of the Mongol Empire, Timurid Empire, Mughal Empire, and Central Asia, specialists in Islamic studies, scholars working on dynasties and dynastic structures, historians of Islamic art and architecture.
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