Talk:Ulugh Beg

message: Truly a good astronomer and maths chap. Had also Mongol-Turkish mixed genes.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.88.88.203 (talk) 00:49, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Response to [[User:Johnstevens5]]'s constant pan-turkist vandalism 

message: I am going to remove the "citation needed" tag, because it's a fact that the area around Samarqand and Bukhara was considered "Persian" and "Persia". This is even attested by Ibn Khaldun who was a contemporary of Timur and Shahrukh:
*"... Thus the founders of grammar were Sibawaih and after him, al-Farisi and Az-Zajjaj. All of them were of Persian descent […] they invented rules of (Arabic) grammar […] great jurists were Persians […] only the Persians engaged in the task of preserving knowledge and writing systematic scholarly works. Thus the truth of the statement of the prophet becomes apparent, 'If learning were suspended in the highest parts of heaven the Persians would attain it' […] The intellectual sciences were also the preserve of the Persians, left alone by the Arabs, who did not cultivate them […] as was the case with all crafts […]This situation continued in the cities as long as the Persians and Persian countries, Iraq, Khorasan and Transoxiana (modern Central Asia), retained their sedentary culture. ..." - Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), in: The Muqaddimah, Translated by F. Rosenthal (III, pp. 311-15, 271-4 [Arabic]; R.N. Frye (p.91).  
 
So, there is actually no dispute! 
Tājik 12:58, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Samarqand and Khorezm being part of medieval "Persia" 

message: The large mural instrument in the photo on the left is stated to be a sextant.  However many illustrations of the large instrument shows it to be a mural quadrant (e.g. the Soviet stamp).  Was it in fact a 90° or 60° instrument or are there two instruments at the site (one of each) and the various illustrations not differentiating them clearly?  Michael Daly 23:44, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sextant or Quadrant or two different instruments? 

message: please;
I requested protection against IP Vandalism and blanking. But you protected the article after vandal edited the article.
please UNDO LAST ACTION of anonymous IP user 82.83.133.161.
: Declined. See meta:Wrong version. Sandstein (talk) 17:41, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have removed misleading categories. Tājik (talk) 03:49, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  ... and I have removed an irrelevant edit by an anon IP. Tajik (talk) 22:11, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Protection Helped Vandalism

message: The lemma 'Abd al-Latif says he was the third son of Ulugh Beg, but the section on Begs death calls him his oldest son. What is correct?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.88.114 (talk) 23:34, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Beheaded by his oldest or third son?

message: Why change this?
If we today should chose his ethnicity than we can not say he was a Persian or a Mongol, but was he than?
Ofcourse Turkic. Timurid dynasty which was a Central Asian empire created by Turkic speaking Timur, and he is his descendant. Doesnt matter how much he is influenced by Persian culture. 
I do not say he was not influenced by Persian culture but still his ethnicity was Turkic.
Ottoman sultans wrote Persian poems are they Persian too? No, because Persian was a important language in that time, like English is today, but millions of people who speak english today are not English people.
The medieval scientists of Europe all writed in Latin but this doesnt make them all Italian or Roman.
Not accepting that he was Turkic is just racism. 
Really why did wikipedia change into persian nationalism?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by DragonTiger23 (talk • contribs) 19:30, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ulughbeg was a Turkic ruler 

message: The article says: "It was only possible to use this device to measure the declination of celestial objects." I presume it means, and should read: "The declination of celestial objects could only be measured using this device." J27325 (talk) 13:15, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguous sentences