The Light of Ahura Mazda

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Timur was a Turkic ruler of Greater Persia. His reign notably changed much of his territory conquered. Born in the late 1320s, he only achieved greatness in the latter parts of his life. Born into the broken Chagatai Khanate, he played the khans against each other so that he gained rule over the khanate, despite having a de jure position of amir, or general. But even before his conversion to Zoroastrianism, he was aspiring to greatness.

Tokhtamysh, a rival khan, had just reunified the Ulus of Jochi. This ulus had a series of disputes over territory such as Khwarezm and Azerbaijan. However, Tokhtamysh hated an enemy even more than Timur. This was the Grand Duchy of Muscovy. Ever since the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Muscovy grew more powerful than the other Russian states. As a result, in 1381, war was declared against it. This was proving to be a threat to the Ulus of Jochi, a greater one than that of Timur. Or so it seemed. But in the Ulus of Chagatai, a series of changes were occurring.

Zoroastrians had long been a persecuted group in Persia. Even after the establishment of the secular Mongol Empire, they were persecuted. It was no surprise that those who still lived in Persia fled northward. In an effort to avoid such persecution, these Zoroastrians went northward as a unified group to Bukhara. There, they converted mercenaries stationed in the town to Zoroastrianism. These mercenaries converted the widespread populace of Bukhara to Zoroastrianism. It was not long before a converted noble, Taraghay, declared himself shahanshah. The Zoroastrians moved on toward Samarkand. Having gotten wind of Taraghay, a kurultai was called and the city was fortified. However, during the siege, a general thought of converting Timur to Zoroastrianism.

Having gotten in by bribing gatekeepers, priests converted a good population of Samarkand to Zoroastrianism. According to legend, it is said that Timur came to those priests unarmed and peacefully converted to Zoroastrianism. Before long, many generals and mercenaries began to support Timur. Taraghay was hanged for treason by his own generals. Timur declared himself shahanshah and began to plan out an invasion of Persia to reclaim Ctesiphon and Persepolis for Zoroastrianism.

While all of this was playing out, Muscovy was burned down by Tokhtamysh. But now, Timur did not care about kafirs. He only wanted to extinguish Islam from Persia forever. In the decades to come, Timur would defeat Tokhtamysh and invade Persia. Before his death, he would extinguish Islam from India and turn Baghdad into rubble yet again. He was truly the light of Ahura Mazda.
 
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Main problem is that most of the Zoroastrian migrations were long concluded before your timeline. Samarkand and Bukhara had long lost their Zoroastrian plurality of the population by the time the Mongols arrived on scene.
 
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