چکیده:
Amir Timur Gurkani (736-807 AH) respected Imam Ali (peace be upon him) and other Shia Imams, and used to endow land, farmland, carpets, and lighting lamps for their shrines. He loved Imam Ali (peace be upon him), respected Umar and Abu Bakr, and spoke ill of Yazid and Muawiyah. He was not a Shiite, but he was a skilled statesman who utilized the religious beliefs of the Shiites toward his own political goals. Furthermore, his association with Sufis softened his view of Islamic sects and their followers, which was also the reason for his tolerance toward the Shiites. Timur's conversion to Shiism is not a belief supported by sources and reports. The present writing, with a historical approach and an analytical-descriptive method, examines the political life of Amir Timur and then his inclination or lack thereof toward Shiism, expresses his veneration of the Sayyids and Alavids and his attachment to Imam Ali (peace be upon him) and his descendants, critiques his belief in Shiism, and finally arrives at his interaction with the Shiites.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Quarterly Journal of History Department at Imam Khomeini Specialized University Vol. 4,No. 10,winter,2011 The Religious Policy of Timur Gurkani regarding the Shiites 1 Seyyed Morteza Hosseini Shah-Torabi* Abstract Amir Timur Gurkani (637-708 AH) respected Imam Ali (peace be upon him) and other Shia Imams, and he endowed land, farmland, carpets, and lighting lamps for their shrines.
The present writing, with a historical approach and an analytical-descriptive method, examines the political life of Amir Timur and then his inclination or lack thereof toward Shiism; it describes his veneration of the Sayyids and Alavids, his attachment to Imam Ali (peace be upon him) and his progeny, critiques his ideological Shiism, and finally examines his interaction with the Shiites.
The Political Life of Amir Timur About four and a half months after the death of "Abu Said," the last powerful Ilkhanid ruler, namely on 2 Sha'ban in the year 637 AH, in the city of Kashgar1 and according to one narration in the village of Khwaja Ilghar—one of the villages of Kash located south of Samarkand—a child was born who was named "Timur" (meaning iron in the Turkic language).
2 Timur's companionship with Sufis, whatever its motive may have been, softened his view toward Islamic sects and their followers, and this was also the reason for his tolerance of the Shiites, not a conversion to Shiism out of belief.
Ibn Arabshah, The Wondrous Life of Timur, translated by Mohammad Ali Nejati, Tehran, Elmi va Farhangi Publications, sixth edition, 1831 SH.
Yazdi, Sharaf al-Din Ali, Zafarnameh, edited by Mohammad Abbasi, Tehran: Amir Kabir Publications, 6331 SH.
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