Both an official chronicle and highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483-1530). The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinary 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.