主题：【原创】十字架与火焰 君士坦丁堡与泰西封的双重奏 6 -- 赫克托尔

During the Timurid era, Central Asian society was bifurcated and had divided the responsibilities of government and rule into military and civilian along ethnic lines. At least in the early stages, the military was almost exclusively Turko-Mongolian, and the civilian and administrative element was almost exclusively Persian. The spoken language shared by all the Turko-Mongolians throughout the area was Chaghatay Turkic. The political organization hearkened back to the steppe-nomadic system of patronage introduced by Genghis Khan.[20] The major language of the period, however, was Persian, the native language of the Tājīk (Persian) component of society and the language of learning acquired by all literate and/or urban people. Already Timur was steeped in Persian culture[21] and in most of the territories which he incorporated, Persian was the primary language of administration and literary culture. Thus the language of the settled "diwan" was Persian, and its scribes had to be thoroughly adept in Persian culture, whatever their ethnic origin.[22] Persian became the official state language of the Timurid Empire[13][19] and served as the language of administration, history, belles lettres, and poetry.[23] The Chaghatay language was the native and "home language" of the Timurid family[24] while Arabic served as the language par excellence of science, philosophy, theology and the religious sciences.[25]