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"In the month of Ramadan in the year 899 [June 1494], in the province of Fergana, in my twelfth year I became king."

~ Timurid-Mughal Emperor Zahir ud-Din Muhammad Babur

⚫ Image description : Portrait of the Timurid-Mughal Emperor Babur.

⚫ Image Source : The British Museum Collection.

⚫ Quotes detail : From Baburnama.

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In the 12th century the historian Ibn Balkhi conceived of kingship in that earlier age as based on the supreme principles of justice, for, he wrote, every king had taught his heir apparent the following maxim:

"There is no kingdom without an army, no army without wealth, no wealth without material prosperity, and no material prosperity without justice."
- Ibn Balkhi

Image Description: Timurid-Mughal Emperor holding a crown.
Image Source: British Museum collection.

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