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

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:738359 L3 - citeulike-article-id:738359 N2 - {Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur was the first Mughal, or Mongol, emperor of India. A devoted warrior who fought by the bloodthirsty standards of his time, Babur was also a gifted scholar and ethnographer, and his memoir, <b>The Baburnama</b>--which translator and editor Wheeler Thackston heralds as the first autobiography in Islamic literature--paints a fascinating portrait of the lands he conquered, such as Hindustan: "A strange country. Compared to ours, it is another 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 at the new places he saw.} {Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483&#8211;1530), <i>The Baburnama</i> presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Babur&#8217;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&#8212;now in a sparkling new translation by Islamic scholar Wheeler Thackston.<br><br>This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes notes, indices, maps, and illustrations.} SN - 0375761373 TI - The Baburnama : Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor (Modern Library Classics) PB - {Modern Library} KW - baburnama KW - moguls KW - mughals KW - mughuls AU - Thackston, Jr PY - 2002/09/10/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0375761373 ER -