The ''Zafarnama'' ( fa, ظفرنامه, lit. ''Book of Victory'') is a biography of

Timur Timur ; chg, ''Aqsaq Temür'', 'Timur the Lame') or as ''Sahib-i-Qiran'' ( 'Lord of the Auspicious Conjunction'), his epithet. ( chg, ''Temür'', 'Iron'; 9 April 133617–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī ( chg, ''Temür Kü ...

written by the historian

Nizam al-Din Shami Nizam al-Din Shami, also known as Nizam-i Shami or Nizam al-Din Shambi (died before 1409 or before 1411-1412), was a Persian man of letters and a chronicler who flourished in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. He wrote the ''Zafarnama'', the e ...

. It served as the basis for a later and better-known ''Zafarnama'' by

Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi or Sharif al-Din Ali’ Yazdi ( fa, شرف الدین علی یزدی; died 1454, Yazd), also known by his pen name Sharaf, was a 15th-century Persian scholar who authored several works in the arts and sciences, including ...

. One translation by Felix Tauer was published in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

in 1937.C. A. Storey -Persian Literature - Partie 1 - Page xiv 1999 - F. Tauer's edition of the Persian text appeared in 1937. Insert : Commentary, etc. : Histoire des conquetes de Tamerlan intitulee Zafarnama, Edition critique par F. Tauer. Tome II: Introduction, commentaire, index. Prague 1956 (320 pp.

References

{{reflist Persian-language books Iranian books Timur Biographical works