Tomorrow Wednesday at 7 pm, Centro Casa Asia-Madrid (calle Mayor, 69), with the collaboration of the Teatro Real, presents the conference Tamerlán, the last Gran Kan.
This conference, which is part of the Centre’s programme for 2024 /25 and on the occasion of the premiere of Tamerlano by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) at the Music Hall, will discuss the figure of the last Great Khan.
In the thirteenth century, the hordes of nomadic horsemen of Genghis Khan create the largest land empire in history, an empire that reaches its zenith from the Pacific to Central Europe. But the history of this huge state will be very brief: in just one century it will be fragmented into smaller entities that will gradually disappear. However, the prodigious Mongol expansion will forever remain in the mythical memory of the peoples of Eurasia.
Almost two centuries later, from Islamic Uzbekistan, Timur Lenk (Tamerlane) proposes to revive the epic of Genghis Khan. Make Samarkanda the heart of the Silk Road, the capital of a new great pan-Asian power and a formidable cultural center between East and West. Tamerlane will be the last of the mythical nomadic tradition kanes, relentless warriors and splendid patrons, and his legacy will remain alive to this day in this fascinating meeting of peoples and cultures that is known as Central Asia.
The event will be presented by Emilio de Miguel, director of the Centro Casa Asia-Madrid, and will be attended by Miguel Peyró, doctor in philology and specialist in linguistic anthropology from Central Asia, author of several academic publications on Mongolian and Altaic languages from Asia. He has been a professor at the universities of Oslo, Cairo and Seville, and director of the research programme “Mongolian ethnolinguistics” at the University of Barcelona. Free admission upon registration.
