Timur and His Family is the first comprehensive analysis of the genealogical and dynastic structure of the Timurid empire across Central Asia and Iran. Drawing extensively on multiple manuscripts of Hafiz-i Abrus Muizz al-ansab and framed by thematic introductory chapters, this study repositions kinship as a central category of historical analysis. By foregrounding family relationships alongside state formation, it offers a critical rethinking of social and political organization in pre-modern Islamic societies. An essential contribution to the fields of Central Asian history, Islamic studies, and genealogical scholarship.
Evrim Binba, Ph.D. (2009), The University of Chicago, teaches Islamic history at the University of Bonn. He publishes on the 15th century Islamic history with a particular focus on the Timurid Empire and the Turkmen federations of the Aqquyunlu and Qaraquyunlu.
John E. Woods, Ph.D. (1974), Princeton University, is professor emeritus of Iranian and Central Asian history at The University of Chicago. He is the foremost historian of the Timurid Empire and his 1976/1999 monograph on the Aqquyunlu dynasty is considered among the classics of Islamc studies.
