Travel the legendary Silk Road formed by the forays of Genghis Khan, Marco Polo, and Tamburlaine.

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In 2005, the Barbican in London was accused of excising sections of its production of Tamburlaine to remove scenes attacking Muhammad.

ECONOMIST: Self-censorship in the West

Despite this zeal for destruction, Justin Marozzi finds a surprising amount of good to say about the Central Asian conqueror usually known in the West as Tamerlane or Tamburlaine, a corruption of Temur-i-lang, or Temur the Lame not a name that anyone, surely, would have dared use to his face.

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