ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, Tīmūrid ruler (d. Rabīʿ I 854/May 1450), was the son of Ulugh Beg and, briefly, the ruler of Samarqand and Transoxania. Although there is no precise information about the date of his birth, Faṣīḥ Kh^wāfī (3/281) indicates that he was a child in Shawwāl 840/May 1437 (cf. Bartol'd, 141, where the date 830/1427 is given). ʿAbd al-Laṭīf's name is first mentioned in association with the solemn reception of the Egyptian embassy, held at the court in Herat in 843/end of 1439 (Bartol'd, 141). As a child, he was much liked by…