"Timurids". The Columbia Encyclopedia (Sixth ed.). New York City: دانشگاه کلمبیا. Archived from the original on 5 December 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-08.
"Timur", The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001–05 Columbia University Press, (LINKبایگانیشده در ۳۰ ژوئن ۲۰۰۸ توسط Wayback Machine)
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دانشنامه بریتانیکا, "Timurid Dynasty", Online Academic Edition, 2007. (Quotation:...Turkic dynasty descended from the conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), renowned for its brilliant revival of artistic and intellectual life in Iran and Central Asia....Trading and artistic communities were brought into the capital city of Herat, where a library was founded, and the capital became the centre of a renewed and artistically brilliant Persian culture...)
B. Spuler, "Central Asia in the Mongol and Timurid periods", published in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition, 2006/7, (LINK): "... 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 ..."
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"Timurids". The Columbia Encyclopedia (Sixth ed.). New York City: دانشگاه کلمبیا. Archived from the original on 5 December 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-08.
