Subtelny, Maria. Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran. BRILL, 2007. ISBN 9004160310. p. 40 – 41. Nevertheless, in the complex process of transition, members of the Timurid dynasty and their Turko-Mongolian supporters became acculturated by the surrounding Persianate millieu adopting Persian cultural models and tastes and acting as patrons of Persian culture, painting, architecture and music. [...] The last members of the dynasty, notably Sultan-Abu Sa'id and Sultan-Husain, in fact came to be regarded as ideal Perso-Islamic rulers who develoted as much attention to agricultural development as they did to fostering Persianate court culture. (на английски)
Lehmann, F. Zaher ud-Din Babor – Founder of Mughal empire // Encyclopædia Iranica. Online. Ню Йорк, Columbia University Center for Iranian (Persian) Studies, 17 септември 2012. с. 320 – 323. ... His origin, milieu, training, and culture were steeped in Persian culture and so Babor was largely responsible for the fostering of this culture by his descendants, the Mughals of India, and for the expansion of Persian cultural influence in the Indian subcontinent, with brilliant literary, artistic, and historiographical results ...
Spuler, Bertold. Central Asia // Encyclopædia Iranica. 2 април 2008. [Part] v. In the Mongol and Timurid periods:... Like his father, Olōğ Beg was entirely integrated into the Persian Islamic cultural circles, and during his reign Persian predominated as the language of high culture, a status that it retained in the region of Samarqand until the Russian revolution 1917... Ḥoseyn Bāyqarā encouraged the development of Persian literature and literary talent in every way possible...
