Study of the Timur’s Massacre in Sabzevar

تاریخ و فرهنگ

Article 5, Volume 44, Issue 2 - Serial Number 89, February 2013   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/history.v0i0.20923

Author

Sa‘īd Naẓarī^*

Abstract

It is related in studies concerning the Timur’s military expedition and the monuments belonging to the Sarbedaran rule that in 785/1383, after suppressing the people of Sabzevar and conquering the city, Timur ordered the rebels to be put amid the mud and bricks alive and make a minaret thereof. This report has in some instances as been a source of historical analyses as well. In the present article, it is clarified through the study of this incident in various sources of Timurid period that this suppression and massacre has happened in Herat’s Esfezar that had also been famous as Sabzevar. In fact, the reason for the incorrect attribution of this incident to Sabzevar has only been the confusion of names of these two cities.

Keywords

Timur; Sabzevar; Sarbedaran (head on gallows); Shaykh Dāwūd; Esfezar