The Baburnama : Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor

W M Thackston; Salman Rushdie
Kuperard (Bravo Ltd)
9780375761379
0-375-76137-3

Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (14831530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.

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during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Baburs honest and intimate chronicle is the first autobiography in Islamic literature, written at a time when there was no historical precedent for a personal narrativenow in a sparkling new translation by Islamic scholar Wheeler Thackston.This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes notes, indices, maps, and illustrations.