Zahirud-din Muhammad Babur,Wheeler M. Thackston
Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483â€“1530), ,The Baburnama, presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Baburâ€™s honest and intimate chronicle is the first autobiography in Islamic literature, written at a time when there was no historical precedent for a personal narrativeâ€”now in a sparkling new translation by Islamic scholar Wheeler Thackston.,This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes notes, indices, maps, and illustrations.
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The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor