Timur massacred 100,000 captives. [29]  Delhi was one of the major centre of  Sufism  during the Sultanate period. [30] In 1526,  Zahiruddin Babur , a  Timurid  descendant of  Timur  and  Genghis Khan  from the  Fergana Valley  (in modern day  Uzbekistan ), invaded India and defeated the last Lodhi sultan in the