Bollywood couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan this morning and India Today received a statement from Saif and Kareena which said that the baby’s name is Taimur Ali Khan.
But do you know who the other famous, rather infamous, Taimur was ?
Here’s all you need to know about Amir Taimur Sultan Taimur Sultan Bahadshah
- Taimur or Timur was a Turko-Mongol conquerer who brought most of the Muslim-ruled parts of Central Asia and India under his control in the 14th century.
- Timur was the founder of the Timurid Empire and Timurid dynasty which survived until 1857.
- Timur means iron. He was born in 1336 in a Persian city, now known as Shahrisabz and is situated in modern day Uzbekistan.
- Timur came to be widely known as Tamerlane, the European derivation of his Persian nickname Timur-e-Lang that translates to Timur the Lame.
- Tamerlane’s tomb excavation by Russian archeologists confirmed that he had two fingers missing from his right hand.
- It is said that Taimur’s tomb had “When I rise from the dead, the world shall tremble” inscribed on it and that his coffin read: “Whoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I”.
- Taimur could be considered a warlord. The area he conquered then now comprises Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, large parts of Turkey and Syria, and the north-western portion of India (Delhi), says owlcation.com
- Taimur’s army killed at least 17 million people.
- Since he was not a descendent of Genghis Khan, Taimur could never become the Mongol emperor. And he couldn’t get acceptance as a Muslim because he was not a descendent of Muhammad.
- When he turned his focus to then India, Taimur slaughtered people saying it is a holy war against the Hindu religion.
Source : MSN
