SOME DETAILS ABOUT TIMUR LANG’S LAMENESS AND ORIGIN
Tīmūr ibn Tarağāī was born in 1336 (or 1334) in the village Khoja Ilğar of the district Kesh in Mawarannahr, by the origin he was from turkified Mongolian tribe Barlās. He is known as Timur Lang, Tamerlane, Tamburlaine, Temir Aksak, which means Lame Timur or Lame Iron: according to ibn 'Arabshah, his name was Tīmūr, which in other languages (probably in Turkish or Persian) pronounced as Tamūr or Tamrlank/Tamarlank and ''he is the Iron ibn Tarağāī in Turkish''. The information of ibn ‘Arabshah about the stealing of sheep is repeated in the Russian source, which inform us that after stealing the sheep they caught, beat him and throw him to feed dogs. They also broke his leg and tigh-bone. The source affirms in surprise that Timur reminded alive and as he was a smith, he tempered his leg with iron and after that he was called Temir AksakLame Iron. The compatible information let us to suppose that the fact of injuring in the leg or in the arm was used later to mask his inborn defects and to present under heroic light, as a result of the injurance in the battle. M. Gerasimov noticed also that there was no trace on the leg which would be result of the injurance and it is more probably that it was an inborn defect.