Timurid Renaissance
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The Timurid Renaissance was a period in Asian and Islamic history, following the Islamic Golden Age, and spanning from the late 14th to the early 16th centuries, which saw the revival of the arts and
Illustration from Jāmī's Rose Garden of the Pious, dated 1553.
Sultan Husayn Bayqara, a patron of art, constructed multiple centers of learning.
Ulugh Beg and Ali Qushji in the observatory.
Ulugh Beg Observatory and its Madrasah has been an important centre of astronomical study in Central Asia.
Gunpowder empires
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"Gunpowder empires", or "Islamic gunpowder empires", is a term coined by the American historians Marshall G. S. Hodgson and William H. McNeill to describe three early modern Muslim empires: the Ottoma
Timurid Renaissance
…styles of the Persian language. In terms of architecture, the Timurid Renaissance was inherited by Mughal India, and significantly influenced other Islamic Gunpowder Empires like Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Iran. The Timurid Empire was founded by Amir Tamerlane in 1370 after the conquest of several Ilkhanate successor states…
The gunpowder empires c. 1680
A mufti sprinkling a cannon with rosewater (engraving by Hieronymus Löschenkohl, 1788)
A tofangchi (Persian Musketeer) in time of Abbas the Great by Habib-Allah Mashadi after Falsafi (Berlin Museum of Islamic Art).
Mughal Toradar