[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Twilight of the Sultanate](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963) › c19.s1.10 # Twilight of the Sultanate c19.s1.10 Twilight of the Sultanate c19.s1.10 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.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 - [Previous: c19.s1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c19.s1.9) - [Next: c19.s1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c19.s1.11) - [Up: c19.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c19.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c19.s1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c19.s1.10) · Pramāṇa