Editing Shah Rukh (section)

==Reign of Timur==
Timur appears not to have had particularly close relations with Shah Rukh, despite the latter never having incurred his displeasure. In 1397, Shah Rukh was appointed governor of [[Greater Khorasan|Khorasan]] by his father, with his viceregal capital being [[Herat]]. Although this was a significant region, it was also the same post that had been awarded to Shah Rukh's brother [[Miran Shah]] when the latter had been thirteen years old. Shah Rukh was never promoted beyond this position during his father's lifetime. Further to this, during Timur's campaign to [[China]], Shah Rukh's young sons took pride of place in the procession while he himself was passed over.<ref>{{harvtxt|Barthold|1963|pp=32–33, 37}}</ref>

Historical sources give no explanation for their relationship, though there is some evidence which suggests that it was Shah Rukh's ancestry which had affected Timur's lack of favour, being the son of a concubine as opposed to a freeborn wife.<ref name=LentzLowry80/> Alternatively, there have been suggestions that Timur believed Shah Rukh did not possess the personal qualities required for ruling; the prince by this point had acquired a reputation for excessive modesty as well as personal piety.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ghiasian|first=Mohamad Reza|title=Lives of the Prophets: The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru's "Assembly of Chronicles"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XpByDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA7|year=2018|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-37722-6|page=7}}</ref> It might also have been this Islamic adherence and subsequent rejection of the laws of [[Genghis Khan]], which had always been so strongly revered by Timur, that had resulted in the alienation of Shah Rukh from his father.<ref>{{harvtxt|Barthold|1963|p=33}}</ref>

Shah Rukh, alongside most of the royal family, accompanied Timur west in his campaign against the [[Ottoman Empire]], which culminated in the [[Battle of Ankara]] in 1402. Shah Rukh commanded the left wing of the army, Miran Shah the right and Timur himself in the centre. The vanguard was headed by two of Shah Rukh's nephews. The battle resulted in a Timurid victory, as well as the capture and subjugation of the Ottoman Sultan, [[Bayezid I]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Spencer|author-link=Spencer C. Tucker|title=Battles that Changed History: An Encyclopedia of World Conflict|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wHpVn68GCogC&pg=PA140|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-429-0|page=140}}</ref>