ABSTRACT
This chapter provides information on Goor-Ameer: the tomb of the Ameer-Timur. In Central Asia everyone knows whom that name implies, for there has been no Ameer equal to Ameer-Timur. Beautiful mosques, built of the most precious materials; madrasas, or seats of learning, filled with ancient manuscripts; palaces and gardens, running water and orchards—all things delightful united under his able guidance to form a city of incredible charm. In his lifetime he was nicknamed ' Timur Leng ', Timur-the-Lame, for his limping gait, and the West twisted this appellation into Tamer-lane which to its mind means a bloodthirsty, unscrupulous conqueror who slew men by the million and built pyramids with the skulls of his enemies. He ordered that his body should be buried in a mosque which he erected for that purpose, and his tomb became an object of veneration, a place both important and interesting, a part, moreover, of the everyday life of the people.
