Perhaps the oldest manuscript about the life and work of Amir Timur, written in Uzbek, was found in Dushanbe, the Republican Center for Spirituality and Education reported.
“This book about Amir Timur is probably the oldest Turkic manuscript that has come down to us. Until now, the oldest written Turkic work about Amir Timur dates back to 1713,” Badriddin Maksudov, a member of the World Society for the Preservation, Study and Promotion of the Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan, said.
At the end of the manuscript there is the date "Rajab 1027 AH", which corresponds to June-July 1618. Experts suggest that this is the date of creation of a copy of the work and that it itself could have been written even earlier. It is still unknown who wrote the manuscript itself, as well as by whom and where it was copied.
“Specialists still find it difficult to unambiguously assess the content of the book. In their opinion, the manuscript was copied in Kokand and possibly created on the basis of Zafarnoma by Sharafiddin Ali Yazdi or Timurnoma by Abdulloh Hatifi. An exact conclusion will be given after a full study of the manuscript, when it is brought from Dushanbe to Uzbekistan,” said Firdavs Abdukhalikov, chairman of the board of the World Society for the Preservation, Study and Promotion of the Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan.
