The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor Paperback - 2002

First line

The Mongol invasion of the thirteenth century changed the face of Central Asia and Iran forever and issued in a new social and political reality.

From the jacket flap

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 by Islamic scholar Wheeler Thackston.
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes notes, indices, maps, and illustrations.

Media reviews

“One of the classics of world literature.” —The New York Times Book Review