Michele Bernardini. “The Matrilinear progeny at the time of Timur”
Disciplines
Review
French
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Michele Bernardini, an established specialist in Herat Timourides, offers a reflection on the role of Turkish-Mongolian women in the process of legitimising timouride dynasty, a topic well addressed by recent historiography. The obsession of Timourides, Turco-mongols from the Kish region from the Bārlās clan, was after Tīmūr’s hegemony between 1370 and 1403, from Central Asia to Anatolia and India, to link their line to that of the founders of the Mongolian Empire, via...