The Baburnama Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor |
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| Author:
| Thackston, W. M.
Thackston, W. M. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-375-76137-9 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2002 |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $42.00 |
Book Description:
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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 during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Babur’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 narrative—now in a sparkling new translation...
More DescriptionBoth 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 during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Babur’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 narrative—now in a sparkling new translation by Islamic scholar Wheeler Thackston.
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes notes, indices, maps, and illustrations.