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Topic: Timurid Succession Crisis, Second

Timurid Succession Crisis, Second

Years: 1447 - 1470

The Timurid Civil Wars are a series of succession crisis and turf wars in Central Asia of the princes of the Timurid Empire mainly during the fifteenth century.

The death of Shahrukh Mirza in 1447 initiated the long drawn out Second Timurid Succession Crisis.

His only surviving heir is his son Ulugh Beg who was at this time viceroy of Central Asia at Samarkand.

"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."

—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)