Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti (Dec 2018)
SOME DETAILS ABOUT TIMUR LANG’S LAMENESS AND ORIGIN
Abstract
The general point of view of Timur's origin is the following: Tīmūr ibn Tarağāī was born in 1336 (or 1334) in the village Khoja Ilğar of the district Kesh 1 in Mawarannahr, by the origin he was from turkified Mongolian tribe Barlās. He is known as Timur Lang, Tamerlane, Tamburlaine, Temir Aksak2 , which means Lame Timur or Lame Iron: according to ibn 'Arabshah, his name was Tīmūr, which in other languages (probably in Turkish or Persian) pronounced as Tamūr or Tamrlank/Tamarlank and ''he is the Iron ibn Tarağāī in Turkish''3. Besides this explanation (Tīmūr-Iron), another etymology of Timur's name we find in the auto-biographical memoirs of Timur: according to The Mulfūzat after Tīmūr's birth his father went to shaykh Shams al-Din al-Fakhuri to choose a name for his son4 . Shaykh opened Qur'an and read the 16 th ayat of 67th surah ''Do you feel secure that He who [holds authority] in the heaven would not cause the earth to swallow you and suddenly it would sway ( tamūru)?''. Consequently, this word (tamūru) is in the base of the name.
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