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Abbas, Shah 137
al Abidin, Zayn 151
Abu Hanifa, Imam 316n
Abubakr (caliph) 174–5
Abubakr (Tamerlane’s grandson) 3, 4, 294, 362
Aga Khan Trust for Culture 262n
Ahmed of Baghdad, Sultan 131, 138, 143–4, 146, 192, 279, 281, 284, 312, 319, 341
Ain Jalut, battle of (1260) 15, 111, 290
Ak Sarai (White Palace) (Shakhrisabz) 32–5
Alamut 110
Alanjiq 282
Albania 73
Aleppo 111; conquest of by Tamerlane and massacres (1400) 2, 101, 292–7, 316
Alexander the Great 45n, 238
Alexander II, Tsar 176
Alfonso XI of Castile 51
Aljai Turkhan-agha 30, 41
Aljigidey, General 113
Allahdad 355, 357
Amu Darya (river) 10, 80
An Chi tao, ambassador 351, 355, 356
Anatolia 287
Angelina (daughter of Count John of Hungary) 340
Ankara 329; battle of (1402) 1–7, 70, 98, 331–3
Antioch 2, 105, 290
Arabshah, Ahmed ibn 3, 44, 69, 102, 139, 157, 200, 390–1, 392–3
and Chinese campaign 397, 399–400
and destruction of Damascus 308, 309
Gibbon on 32n
hostility towards Tamerlane 8–9, 29, 85–6, 335
portrait of Tamerlane 29, 85, 86–8, 89–90
recording of Tamerlane’s last hours 403
and Tamerlane’s burial 409–10
Aral Sea 80–1
archery 102
Arigh Boke 348
Armenia 15, 286
army, Tamerlane’s 99–101, 326–7
consolidation of by Tamerlane and gaining of loyalty 41, 42, 64–5, 66–7, 97, 98–9, 117, 138, 205, 242, 406
equipment and weapons 100–1, 183
organisation of 17, 99–100
rewards and promotions 99–100
tactics and techniques used in battle 101–2
Tamerlane’s review of troops 183–4, 327
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