Guri Amir (1404) Timur's mausoleum was restored in 1996 for the 660th anniversary of his birth.
This is a fascinating little interview with Timur Kuran, an expert in Islamic finance.
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Some Uzbeks have misgivings about the way Timur has crept back to haunt them.
Timur's tomb itself is surprisingly modest a simple plinth of jade set at the centre of the chamber.
In 1941 a Soviet team opened Timur's tomb and discovered that physically at least the emperor was no Hercules.
In the 17th century legend has it Nadir Shah took Timur's headstone back to Persia.
Timur Goksel, a former senior advisor to the U.N. force in Lebanon, says the government is simply not capable of challenging Hezbollah.
Uzbekistan's neighbours also get jittery with the hero worship of Timur.
In Kazakhstan, Timur Kulibaev and his wife Dinara Kulibaeva, the daughter of President Nursultan Nazarbaev, jointly own 60% of Halyk Bank through their investment vehicle Almex.
Timur Goksel, a former spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, worked with Suleiman and describes him as a cautious character who kept the army out of politics.
The Shah's nervous mullahs had warned him against stirring the spirit of Timur and sure enough a spate of tragedies ensued until the stone was returned to Samarkand, albeit broken in half.
Yet Timur Kuran, a professor at America's Duke University, argues that the inheritance rules in Islamic family law may have slowed development in the past by making it harder to accumulate wealth.
The opera is in three acts and is loosely based on the historic conflict between Bajazet, a Turkish sultan, and the Tartar conqueror Timur, or Tamerlano, who ruled much of western and central Asia in the 14th century.
For all the architectural crimes Soviet rule inflicted on the city depressing gruel textured tower blocks among them the glittering fist of the great Timur (aka Tamerlane), who raised Samarkand again after Genghis Khan had lain it to waste in 1220, is still discernible.
Meanwhile, National Police chief Timur Pradopo said police also killed one more suspected terrorist he identified as Abu Roban and arrested nine others in four additional operations in Central Java and West Java, but he declined to name the nature of the suspected terrorist activities.
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