Abstract
This article discusses a genealogical chart drawn in the third quarter of the fifteenth century CE (probably in the first half of the 1460s) in Iraq, most likely in Najaf, which presents the Timurids as descendants of ʻAli b. Abī Ṭālib through his son Muḥammad b. al-Ḥanafiyya. This genealogical chart presents a hitherto unknown ʻAlid genealogy as that of the Timurids. It thus appears to testify to a Timurid attempt at "ʻAlidizing" themselves that is completely different from the one attested by the well-known epitaphs at Gūr-i Amīr. Particularly notable is the fact that this ʻAlid genealogy connects the Timurids to a legendary royal family (the legendized Qarakhanids) that purportedly played an important role in the Islamization of the regions roughly corresponding to the realms of the historical Chaghatay Khanate.
