A bit about the Timurid Empire

Youth seeking his father’s advice on love From the Haft Awrang of Jami, in the story “A Father Advises his Son About Love”.

I am going to throw our King of Spades into the 1400′s in North-East India. At that time, Shahrukh Mirza was Emperor of the short-lived Timurid Empire. He ruled from about 1405-1447 AD or AH 807-850 (see an explanation of the Hirji calendar here).

My plan is to have her run into the poet Jami (also read more about him here) and make the journey from where she thought she was in Sopore, Kashmir to the capital city of this empire, Herat. He can be travelling with a convoy escorting the Emperor’s son Baysonqor.