Timur, (Timur Lenk, Timur-i-Long, Tamerlan); Asian conqueror of Turco-Mongol descent; founder of the Timurid dynasty in Persia and Transoxiana; Kesh (Chagatai Khanate) 8.4.1336 - Otrar near Shymkent 19.1.1405. Attack on the enemy in a cave from a gondola suspended from a rock. Detail. Persian miniature, 1486. Illustration of the Zafarnama (Book of Victory / History of Timur) by the Persian historian Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi (died 1454). Gouache on paper. Ms. 1964. Istanbul, Museum of Turkish Art.