Tamerlane was a Muslim (I mistook him with great grandfather, Genghis Khan). But this is ALL that you got right. He certainly had no problems killing Muslims. He fought more Muslim kingdoms than non-Islamic ones. The list includes: Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, etc. His invasion of India was against the Muslim ruler of Delhi. Similarly, he started a war with Bayezid I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and the Mamluk sultan of Egypt.
So no, he was not motivated by expanding the glory of Islam any more than Europeans who were busy slaughtering each other were motivated by expanding the "glory" of Christianity, even if they each cited God and Christ as their cause.
And all this, and it still does not apply to what I named: The Indian Mogul Caliphate of 1527-1856. Tamerlane was nearly 150 years before the time span and the dynasty I called for. |
