{"book":"adl0957","page":297,"text":"240\n\nHerat, Nishapur, Kunduz, Kabul and Ghazni.\nTHE TIMURIDS\n1336 Timur-i-Lang (Tamerlane) is born at Kish.\n1389 Tamerlane overthrows the Kurt dynasty of\nHerat.\n1398 Tamerlane sacks Delhi.\n1402 Defeat of Bayazid, the “Thunderbolt” at the\nhands of Tamerlane near Ankara.\n1405 Tamerlane dies at Otrar.\n1405-1519 The Timurids of Herat.\n1405-1447 (1) Shah Rukh, son of Tamerlane, rules over a\ngreat part of central Asia from his capital at\nHerat. He is a great patron of arts and\nlearning. His queen, Gohar Shad Agha, is\nalso an accomplished lady and builds\nmosques and colleges. Herat becomes a great\nseat of learning.\n1447-1449 (2) Ulugh Beg succeeds his father. He, too, is a\ntalented member of this family. The encour-\nagement he gives to his favourite science,\nastronomy, has preserved his name as the\nauthor of an accurate and complete\nastronomical table known by the name of\nUlugh Beg's Zich.\n1449-1450 (3) Abdul Latif.\n1452-1467 (4) Abu Saide.\n1467-1504 (5) Sultan Hussain Bayaqra is a patron of\nscholars. He is the last great king of this\nline. His minister, Alisher Nawai, is also\nan accomplished scholar.","chars":1111,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00297.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/297","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/297","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}