03213cam a22003733u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000220012624500300014826400510017830000470022933600260027633700260030233800360032850000310036450802080039552018480060353400720245165300440252365300290256765300510259670000480264770000330269585600490272885600430277799900190282076195UtSlPG20260610134749.0mcr n260607r20251830utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a32008852  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aDS1 aTimur,d1336-140514aThe Mulfuzāt Timūry = 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-05-30  aTurgut Dincer, Tim Lindell, Gísli Valgeirsson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"The Mulfuzāt Timūry = or, Autobiographical memoirs of the Moghul emperor Timūr" by Timūr is a historical autobiographical memoir written in the early 15th century. Dictated in Jagtay Turki and later rendered into Persian (and then English), it blends personal narrative with political “Institutes,” maxims of rule, and religious reflection. It follows the rise of Timūr from Transoxiana, framing conquest through justice, discipline, Islamic piety, and the counsel of saints and omens. Expect genealogy, campaigns, court craft, and guidance for successors.  The opening of this chronicle presents the editor’s and translator’s prefaces (stressing sources and authenticity) and Abu Talib Husayni’s statement that he found a Turki original in Yemen and translated it into clear Persian for princes. Timūr’s voice then lays out twelve governing rules—strict justice, truthfulness, compassion, obedience to Islamic law, honoring the Prophet’s descendants, valuing scholars, keeping promises, and shunning greed—alongside the ideal of the just monarch as “Shadow of God” and the need for wise ministers. A sequence of dreams, omens, and saintly endorsements underscores his mandate: visions of the Prophet, the “white standard” of ‘Alī before Anatolia, counsel in dealings with Tughluk Timūr and the Jete, favorable horoscopes, battlefield portents, and episodes that justify both iconoclasm in India and acts of clemency (such as sparing Shiraz at a Syed’s plea). The narrative then turns to his beginnings—his name linked to a Qur’anic verse, early schooling and leadership games, his father’s pious counsel and genealogy, blessings from saints promising dominion, brushes with danger and illness, and training in horsemanship and the arts of war. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: Oriental translation committee, 1830  aTimur, 1336-1405 -- Early works to 1800  aAsia, Central -- History  aAsia, Central -- Kings and rulers -- Biography1 aAbū Ṭālib al-Ḥusaynī, active 16371 aStewart, Charles,d1764-18374 uhttps://archive.org/details/cu3192402854463740uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76195  c116920d116920