Under Timur and his successors, Samarkand became a centre of scholarship and science. His mausoleum there, the GÅ«r-e AmÄ«r, is one of the gems of Islamic art. The Timurid dynasty survived in Central Asia for a century, and Timurās descendant BÄbur founded the Muslim line of Indian emperors known as the Great Mughals.
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