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JUSTIN MAROZZI
TAMERLANE Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World

This edition published by Harper Perennial 2005

Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Temurs Family Tree
Acknowledgements
A Note on Spelling and Terminology
1 Beginnings on the Steppe: 1336 – 1370
2 Marlow's Scourge of God: 1370 – 1379
3 'The Greatest and Mightiest of Kings'
4 Conquest in the West: 1379 - 1387
5 The Golden Horde and the Prodigal Son: 1387 - 1395
6 Samarkand, the Pearl of the East: 1396 - 1398
...Now, as the soldiers stared up at the distant silhouette of a man on horseback, framed against the heavens, they steeled themselves, for another victory. Truly their emperor had earned his magnificent titles. Lord of the Fortunate Conjunction (of the Planets, a reference to the auspicious position of the stars at his birth); Conqueror of the World; Emperor of the Age; Unconquered Lord of the Seven Climes.
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