The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor (Modern Library Classics)

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Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India all through the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Babur’s honest and intimate chronicle is the primary autobiography in Islamic literature, written at a time when there was once no historical precedent for a personal narrative—now in a sparkling new translation by Islamic scholar Wheeler Thackston.

This Brand new Library Paperback Classics edition includes notes, indices, maps, and illustrations.
Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur was once the primary Mughal, or Mongol, emperor of India. A devoted warrior who fought by the bloodthirsty standards of his time, Babur was once also a gifted scholar and ethnographer, and his memoir, The Baburnama–which translator and editor Wheeler Thackston heralds as the primary autobiography in Islamic literature–paints an enchanting portrait of the lands he conquered, such as Hindustan: “A atypical country. In comparison to ours, it’s some other world. Its mountains, rivers, forests, and wildernesses, its villages and provinces, animals and plants, peoples and languages, even its rain and winds are altogether different.” They were different indeed, and we’re fortunate to have this beautifully illustrated record of Babur’s wonderment on the new places he saw.

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