Of Turkic/Mongol origin, Timur was steeped in Persian culture.[7] He aspired to restore the Mongol Empire, yet his heaviest blow was against the Mongol Golden Horde, which never recovered from his campaign against Tokhtamysh.
He thought of himself as a ghazi, but his biggest wars were against Muslim states.
T%u012Bm%u016Br bin Taraghay Barlas (Chagatai Turkic: %u062A%u06CC%u0645%u0648%u0631 - T%u0113m%u014Dr, "iron") (1336 %u2013 February 1405), known in the West as Tamerlane, was a 14th century warlord of Turco-Mongol descent,[1][2][3][4] conqueror of much of western and central Asia, and founder of the Timurid Empire and Timurid dynasty (1370%u20131405) in Central Asia, which survived in some form until 1857.
