Topal Teymur (play)

Topal Teymur – is a play, historic drama in five acts written by Huseyn Javid, Azerbaijani poet and playwright, in 1925. The play is about Timur, Central Asian conqueror. For the first time the play was staged, in 1926, in Baku.

It was considered that the poet idealized feudal conquerors and that “Timur was idealized with his ideas of consolidation of Turkic, Tatar and Mongolian peoples under the flag of integrated Turan Empire.” Some people said that there is a detachment toward modernity in the play and some found out nationalistic motifs.