Obviously I'm not referring to the Bollywood actor on the right.Shah Rukh Khan was the fourth son of Timur or better known as Tamerlene the conqueror. Timur died in 1405 and Shah Rukh Khan gained control of the Turko-Mongol tribes in 1407, whose empire included Iran and Turkistan which also included Samarkand. The following is an excerpt of Shah Rukh Khan's achievements based on his famous son's biography:
In 1409, Shah Rukh decided to make Herat in Khorasan (today in western Afghanistan) his new capital. Shah Rukh ruled there making it a trading and cultural centre. He founded a library there and became a patron of the arts. However Shah Rukh did not give up Samarkand, rather he decided to give it to his son Ulugh Beg who was more interested in making the city a cultural centre than he was in politics or military conquest. Although Ulugh Beg was only sixteen years old when his father put him in control of Samarkand, he became his father's deputy and he became ruler of the Mawaraunnahr region.
The above is quoted from http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ulugh_Beg.html but unfortunately the link no longer works somehow.
Shah Rukh Khan died in 1447.
UPDATED AT 1.10 a.m. 11 May 2006: MORE ABOUT SHAH RUKH KHAN CAN BE READ AT THIS LINK.
3 comments:
interesting...
So sad that 'the now Shah Rukh Khan' is totally the opposite personality. Think bout nothing else but how to maintain his popularity ,dance movement(guling-guling stuff) and charmed people(i'm one of em..well...used to.I just can't resist him in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai).
hahaha.. kalau shah rukh khan the actor died.. i dun care at all.. :p.. hehehe
kalau kuch kuch hota hai.. takpa la kot.. wakakakkaa... takpa.. i made my blog into offshore engineering tech after this.. hehe
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