Twilight of the Sultanate c7.7

c7.7

⁵ Qirān indicates, in the astrology of Persia, conjunction of two or more planets. Tīmūr was born in the Mouse year (first of the Turkish cycle) under the sign of Capricorn. He was the first to take the title of Sāhib Qirān, but the same is not found on his coins. J.A.S.B., VI (new series) 1910, 574-75. A.N., Bev., I, 205. Gibbon, (II, 1233 n.,) however, doubts if he was born under this conjunction. Also Sykes, *History of Persia*, II, 199.