The Baburnama
Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
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- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2002
Summary
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 Whe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375761379 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0375761373 |
| Author: | W.M. Thackston |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2002 |
| Weight: | 471g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 133mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“One of the classics of world literature.” -The New York Times Book Review
“One of the classics of world literature.” —The New York Times Book Review
About The Author
W.M. Thackston
Wheeler M. Thackston is professor of the Practice in Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages at Harvard University, where he has taught for twenty years.
Salman Rushdie is the author of Midnight’s Children (winner of the Booker Prize) and Fury, among others. His latest book is Step Across This Line.
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