Herat's Cultural Golden Age under the Timurids

Name: Herat's Cultural Golden Age under the Timurids
Start: 1490
End: 1499

Type Event Region Central Asia Time 1490–1499

In the 1490s the last Timurid sultan Husayn Bayqara made Herat his capital, gathering Persian-Turkish men of letters, painters, and architects in the…

Timeline

1490–1495Herat · HeratSultan Husayn Bayqara spent lavishly to attract scholars and craftsmen, expanded palaces and libraries, and shaped Herat into the last cultural highland of the Timurid Empire, in sharp contrast to the military turmoil in Transoxiana.
1492–1499Herat · HeratAli Shir Navai wrote the Four Divans in Chagatai, while Behzad directed the royal atelier and revolutionized the composition and color of miniature painting; Jami died in 1492, and his Sufi poetics continued to influence Persian-Turkish intellectual circles through his network of disciples.

Sources

The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 6: The Timurid and Safavid Periods — Peter Jackson, Lawrence Lockhart (eds.) (1986)
Encyclopaedia Iranica: Herat vi. History — Multiple contributors https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/herat-vi-history