premise: Timur lived his entire life without encountering the Christian Knights Hospitaller.
hypothesis: The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem ( Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani ) , also known as the Order of Saint John , Order of Hospitallers , Knights Hospitaller , Knights Hospitalier or Hospitallers , is the medieval Catholic military order that continued into the contemporary Sovereign Military Order of Malta , which remains a sovereign subject of international law . Timur . Timur also decisively defeated the Christian Knights Hospitaller at the Siege of Smyrna , styling himself a ghazi .