Editing Tashkent (section)

===Timurid period===
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Under the [[Timurid dynasty|Timurid]] and subsequent [[Shaybanid]] dynasties, the city's population and culture gradually revived as a prominent strategic center of scholarship, commerce and trade along the [[Silk Road]].
During the reign of [[Timur|Amir Timur]] (1336-1405), Tashkent was restored and in the 14th-15th centuries Tashkent was part of Timur's empire. For Timur, Tashkent was considered a strategic city. In 1391 Timur set out in the spring from Tashkent to Desht-i-Kipchak to fight the Khan of the [[Golden Horde]] [[Tokhtamysh|Tokhtamysh Khan]]. Timur returned from this victorious campaign through Tashkent.<ref>Fasikh Akhmad ibn Dzhalal ad-Din Mukhammad al-Khavafi. Fasikhov svod. Tashkent: Fan. 1980, p.114</ref>
[[File:Mausoleum Zangiata 15-12.JPG|thumb|left|Zangi ata shrine]]
The most famous saint Sufi of Tashkent was Sheikh Khovendi at-Takhur (13th to the first half of the 14th century). According to legend, Amir Timur, who was treating his wounded leg in Tashkent with the healing water of the Zem-Zem spring, ordered to build a mausoleum for the saint. By order of Timur, the Zangiata mausoleum was built.