Twilight of the Sultanate c7.8

c7.8

Tīmūr received his education under the care of his great-grandfather Qarāchar Nūyān, Minister of Chaghtāi Khan. He was five and twenty when his father died, in 1361, and he had to flee the country the following year. It was during these wanderings that, while fighting a Sīstānī army in southern Afghanistan, in 1363, he received an arrow-wound in his foot, which maimed him for life and earned for him the sobriquet of Tamerlane.