Mirza Muhammad Taraghay Ulughbey, the grandson of Amir Teymur, was born on March 22, 1394 in the city of Sultaniya, Zanjan province (within the borders of present-day Iran).
After the death of his father Shahrukh Sultan in 1447, he had to manage a large empire on his own. Dissatisfied with the work he did, disagreeing with his share in the distribution of power, the reactionary palace officials provoke Ulughbey's son Abdullatif Mirza to revolt against his father. He was accused of cruelty and injustice in the court called by the fitfa of the sheikhs and sentenced to death. Mirza Ulughbey, a famous astronomer, mathematician, great scientist and ruler and statesman from the Timurid dynasty, was allowed to go to Mecca after his son's troops rebelled against him, but he was killed in Samarkand on October 27, 1449 by his son who did not keep his word.
