B. Spuler, «Central Asia in the Mongol and Timurid periods», published in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition, 2006/7, (LINKArchiviato il 24 febbraio 2009 in Internet Archive.): "... 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 ..."
«Timur», The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001-05 Columbia University Press, (LINKArchiviato il 30 giugno 2008 in Internet Archive.)
B. Spuler, «Central Asia in the Mongol and Timurid periods», published in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition, 2006/7, (LINKArchiviato il 24 febbraio 2009 in Internet Archive.): "... 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 ..."
