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The Barlas (also Berlas, Birlas) were a Mongolian, later Turkicized nomadic confederation in Central Asia and the chief tribe of the Timurid emperors who ruled much of Central Asia, Iran, and Hindustan in the Middle Ages. Due to extensive contacts with Turkic-speaking Central Asian nomads, the tribe later adopted the religion Islam and the Chagatai-Turkic language which itself was heavily influenced by Arabic and Persian.

According to The Secret History of the Mongols - a 13th century epic written during the reign of Ögedei Khan - the Barlas were descendants of the Mongol warlord Bodonchir (Bodon Achir; Bodon'ar Mungqaq) who was also considered the direct ancestor of Genghis Khan. The 14th century conqueror Timur was from a noble family of the Barlas clan.

See also

• Mongol Empire
• Timurids

References

1. Encyclopædia Britannica, "Timur", Online Academic Edition, 2007.
2. G.R. Garthwaite, "The Persians", Malden, ISBN 9781557868602, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2007. (p.148)
3. ^ G. Doerfer, Chaghatay, in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition 2007, (LINK): "... Even when Chaghatay authors deliberately set out to write in Turkish they were not able to avoid using Persian words. For example, when ʿAlī Shīr Navā'ī (844-906/1441-1501) wrote Mohākamat al-loğatayn in order to prove the superiority of Turkish over Persian, he used a language that contained 62.6 percent Persian and Arabic words ..."
4. The Secret History of the Mongols, transl. by I. De Rachewiltz, Chapter I.
5. René Grousset, The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia, Rutgers University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-8135-1304-9 (p.409)

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