Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394-1449) · Scientists · Died at 55
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Something wrong?A 15th-century sultan who cared more about the stars than statecraft. He built one of the Islamic world's finest observatories in Samarkand and advanced spherical geometry and trigonometry - then lost his throne to rivals who understood that ruling required more than mathematics.
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Ulugh Beg, Timurid painting 1425-50
J. Greaves and Ulugh Beg, Epochae celebriores... Wellcome L0024098
Ladies of the harem of Ulugh Beg. Contemporary Timurid painting, 1425-50. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C
Name and title of Ulugh Beg on the canopy
Retainers of Ulugh Beg. Contemporary Timurid painting, 1425-50. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C
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Timurids. Ulugh Beg I. AH 850-853 AD 1447-1449. AR Tanka (25.5mm, 5.53 g, 3h). Herat mint. Dated AH 852 AD 1448-9Family
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Mīrzā Muhammad Tarāghāy bin Shāhrukh, born 22 March 1394, inherited Samarkand from his father Shah Rukh and presided over the cultural peak of the Timurid Renaissance. Between 1417 and 1429 he built madrasahs in Samarkand and Bukhara and raised the great Ulugh Beg Observatory, the largest in Central Asia - scholars later called him the most important observational astronomer of his century. He spoke five languages and pushed forward trigonometry and spherical geometry in service of the sky. But his scientific brilliance never translated to governance: he failed to consolidate power, and family and rivals circled. On 27 October 1449, fifty-five years old, he was overthrown and assassinated.
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