Their conquests were over the other Mahomedans: for Tamerlane invaded Hindostan, as he invaded other countries, in the character of the great reformer of the Mahomedan religion.

He came as a sort of successor to the rights of the Prophet, upon a divine title.

He struck at all the Mahomedan princes who reigned at that time.

He considered them as apostates, or at least as degenerated from the faith, and as tyrants abusing their power.

To facilitate his conquests over these, he was often obliged to come to a sort of a composition with the people of the country he invaded.