Tamerlane: The Wound That Conquered the World
A Story of Shame, Hunger, and the Terrible Cost of Never Feeling Like EnoughBy Narin Hikma
Length9h 8m
About this audiobook
What if what you spent your life proving was never a verdict—just a joke everyone else forgot?
You know the dismissal that landed too hard. The small, ordinary humiliation you never put down.
Timur was a dismissed boy until a shepherd's arrow took two fingers and his stride, giving the world a name it would never forget: Timur the Lame. He spent forty-one years answering it—breaking empires, building one of the medieval world's most beautiful cities, and conquering on an unimaginable scale, only to die on a frozen road reaching for more.
This narrative biography explores a conqueror driven by an old wound that victory could never heal.
• Watch a single humiliation harden into an appetite that swallows continents
• Understand why total victory never brought the relief he chased
• Walk from a wounded boy's vow to an old man's last winter
This is for anyone who has turned an old wound into an exhausting need to prove something.
Open the first page. Put the ledger down.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Biography and Memoir
Length9 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 9, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
1411. Fire Over the Caucasus
2Epigraph
1512. Delhi Burns
3Prologue
1613. The Sultan in the Cage
41. The Sheep and the Arrows
1714. Baghdad's Ninety Thousand
52. Blood of the Steppe
1815. The City That Would Not Bow
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63. The Bandit Prince
1916. Correspondence with Poets
74. Brother of the Throne
2017. Nine Wives, No Home
85. The Death of Husayn
2118. The Enemies Who Outlived Him
96. Güregan: The Borrowed Crown
2219. Snow on the Road to China
107. The Grazing Court
2320. What the Empire Could Not Hold
118. Persia Falls
24Epilogue
129. Isfahan and the Pyramids
2521. Author's Note
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