page_title: Saray Mulk Khanum
section_title: Patronizing education
hierarchical_section_title: Saray Mulk Khanum / Patronizing education
caption_attribution_description: English: Bibi-Khanym Mosque, Samarkand, Uzbekistan. עברית: מסגד ביבי-חנים, סמרקנד, אוזבקיסטן.
context_page_description: Saray Mulk Khanum was the Empress consort of the Timurid Empire as the chief consort of Timur, also known as Tamerlane the Great, the founder of the Timurid Empire as well as the Timurid dynasty.
  By birth, she was a princess of Moghulistan as a daughter of Qazan Khan ibn Yasaur and was also a direct descendant of Genghis Khan.
context_section_description: One of the most important buildings of the late 14th century in Samarkand was the Khanum madrasa, opposite the great mosque of Timur. The madrasa was commissioned by Empress Saray in c. 1397 as she was interested in patronizing education and was built by her orders at the capital of the Timurid Empire: Samarkand. Saray had commissioned many other buildings, but only the Khanum madrasa foundations  remains  to this day. Timur named one of the largest mosques ever conducted (1399-1404) in honour of his wife, Bibi Khanum (Saray). However, the Bibi Khanym Mosque was actually commissied by Saray.
caption: The Bibi Khanym Mosque in Samarkand was named after Saray by her husband
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