Twilight of the Sultanate c19.s1.10

c19.s1.10

Ahmad bin Arabshāh, who at places is quite critical of Tīmūr evers that his massacres "were prompted only by the exigencies of conquest and the necessities of world-empire".⁷ He used to massacre Muslims as mercilessly as he massacred the Indian prisoners of war. He caused two thousand prisoners to be built up in a wall in Sīstan (1383-84), he massacred 70,000 inhabitants of Isphahan in 1387, and he erected twenty towers of skulls at Alleppo and Damascus in the same year. The massacre of Indian prisoners was not a unique act of one who was responsible for incalculable bloodshed and suffering in the East.⁸