Topal Teymur (play)

Topal Teymur^{[1][2][3][4][5]} – is a play, historic drama^[4] in five acts written by Huseyn Javid, an Azerbaijani poet and playwright, in 1925.^[1][3] Topal Teymur is a 1926 play about Timur, the Central Asian conqueror. It premiered in 1926 in Baku.^[6]

Topal Teymur
Poster of the spectacle. 1926. Azerbaijan State Academic Drama Theatre
Written by	Huseyn Javid
Date premiered	1926
Place premiered	Azerbaijan State Academic Drama Theatre
Original language	Azerbaijani
Genre	Drama
Setting	1925

It was considered that the poet idealized feudal conquerors^[1][3][6] and that “Timur was idealized with his ideas of consolidation of Turkic, Tatar, and Mongolian peoples under the flag of integrated Turan Empire.”^[7] Some people said that there is a detachment toward modernity^[2] in the play and some found out nationalistic motifs.^[8]