Conduct of modern science– 2016 • Díl 1

MATERIALS OF THE XVI INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL CONFERENCE ★ March 30 - April 7, 2020
Gibbon made excursions into the history of the West European and Eastern Middle 
Ages, paying attention to the personality of Amir Temur. In particular, he wrote that 
"living in memory and respect for posterity" was the desire of his noble soul ... His 
covenants (obviously, referring to the "Code of Temur") remained unfamiliar to 
Europe. “Gibbon was impressed by "the rise of Amir Temur from a simple rank to 
dominion over Asia."
Amir Temur also appears in the capital “General History” of Friedrich 
Schlosser (1776-1861). In his work, imbued with the spirit of democracy and moral 
enlightenment, Amir Temur is described as the largest personality, combining “tactical 
and strategic knowledge”. According to Schlosser, Amir Temur “gave his new state 
“Code and laws”.
The well-known author of Universal History, Georg Weber, emphasized that 
having “the great talents of a commander, ruler and legislator”, Amir Temur was not 
without a love of knowledge, and he patronized scientists and artists and was a fair 
judge in a calm mood. From this angle, Weber concludes that Amir Temur “both as a 
man and as a ruler stood above Bayazed (the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire)”, who 
only thought about conquests and neglected the government, giving everything into the 
hands of greedy, depraved and greedy judges. The personality of Amir Timur aroused 
keen interest in Europeans of the middle Ages, as a commander who saved the 
Christian world from an inevitable disaster. Therefore, since the sixteenth century, 
Europeans, as a token of gratitude, have created a number of artistic and historical 
works devoted to the personality of Amir Timur, the structure of his state, and the talent 
of a military leader. In these works, the image of Sahibkiran bore both realistic and 
epic features. The first work of this kind was the diary of Rui Gonzalez de Clavijo. The 
diary was first published by the publisher Argote de Molina in 1582 in Seville under 
the title “The Life and Acts of the Great Tamerlane, Describing the Lands of his 
Empire”. In Russian, this work, which was translated by I. I. Sreznevsky, was called 
“R. G. de Clavijo. A diary of a trip to Timur’s court in Samarkand in 1403-1406. .. In 
Russia, it was published in St. Petersburg in 1881. In annotations, Argote de Molina 
expressed his opinion on the travel notes of Rui Gonzalez. The diary contains along 
with accurate information and artistic - fantastic fiction. So Clavijo reports that Amir 
Timur owned a ring adorned with precious stones. The stones of this ring supposedly 
had the property to change color if someone lied under Sahibkiran. After the defeat of 
the Turkish Sultan Bayazid Yildirim (1389-1403) in the battle of Ankara, European
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