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1. Timurid Empire

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   Succession and Decline
   The death of Timur in 1405 led to immediate fragmentation. The ensuing century was marked by intermittent attempts to reunify the fractured domains among Timur's descendants. The major competing centers were Samarkand (under Ulugh Beg and his successors) and Herat (under Shah Rukh and Sultan Husayn Bayqara).
   The structural weakness lay in the inherited political theory: legitimacy rested on direct descent from Timur, but there was no established method for transferring that legitimacy pea…