Zu Timurs Zeit war die Mehrzahl der Einwohner in den Grenzen des heutigen Irans noch Sunniten, dieses änderte sich erst mit den Zwangskonversionen und Konversionen durch die Safawiden.
drei Legitimationen hatte Timur, einmal durch Heirat, dann:
"Another important component of Timur’s legiti-
mation was Islam. Timur respected and patronized
Sufi sheikhs and ulama, with whom he often debated,
and he built religious monuments. The third facet of
his legitimation was his own charisma and success:
Timur stressed his intimate connection with the su-
pernatural, consciously imitated Genghis Khan, and
used monumental building and court historiography
to magnify his name. ..."
aus: Josef W. Meri, editor: Medieval Islamic civilization: an encyclopedia.
"Tamerlane was the product of a mixed environment
and was not a man of the deep steppe. The political
system that he later employed to rule his empire was also
mixed. It continued the Chaghatay ulus tradition of a strict
separation between sedentary and nomadic sectors, with the
sedentary world (the tax base) protected from destructive
nomadic incursions to the greatest degree possible and ruled,
not by tribal chieftains, who were simultaneously commanders
of tribally based military forces, but by local administrators,
bureaucrats appointed for set periods of time. ..."
aus: Martin, Richard C. (Hrsg.): Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world.
So, ob Schiit oder Sunnit, vor allem war er ein Taktiker, und ich muss letztlich die Frage offen lassen, da ich ins Bett muss.
