After leaving a trail of carnage in India, he marched on Damascus and Baghdad, destroying all the monuments of the latter and deporting the artisans of the former to his capital at Samarkand.
He settled in Transoxania after taking part in campaigns there with Genghis Khan's son Chagatai. In the 1380s he began his conquest of Persia, taking lands from Khorasan to Mesopotamia and suppressing revolts by massacring entire cities. After leaving a trail of carnage in India, he marched on Damascus and Baghdad, destroying all the monuments of the latter and deporting the artisans of the former to his capital at Samarkand. FTP, who was this Turkic conqueror of Islamic faith whose name reflects the lasting battle wounds he received?
He settled in Transoxania after taking part in campaigns there with Genghis Khan's son Chagatai.
{Tamerlane} (acc. Timur the Lame)