Ulūgh Beg

Ulūgh Beg

▪ Timurid ruler

born 1394, Solṭānīyeh, Timurid Iran
died Oct. 27, 1449, Samarkand, Timurid empire [now in Uzbekistan]

      grandson of the Asian conqueror Timur (Tamerlane) and one whose primary interest was in the arts and intellectual matters. Under his brief rule the Timurid dynasty of Iran reached its cultural peak.

      His father, Shāh Rokh, captured the city of Samarkand and gave it to Ulūgh Beg, who made it a centre of Muslim culture. There he wrote poetry and history and studied the Qurʾān. His greatest interest was astronomy, and he built an observatory (begun in 1428) at Samarkand. In his observations he discovered a number of errors in the computations of the 2nd-century Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy, whose figures were still being used.

      Ulūgh Beg was a failure in more mundane affairs. On his father's death in 1447 he was unable to consolidate his power, though he was Shāh Rokh's sole surviving son. Other Timurid princes profited from his lack of action, and he was put to death at the instigation of his son, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf.

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