The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and EmperorBoth 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. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION by Salman Rushdie | vii |
TRANSLATORS PREFACE | xvii |
CHRONOLOGY | xxxi |
THE BABURNAMA | xxxix |
FERGANA AND TRANSOXIANA | 1 |
KABUL | 141 |
Events of the Years 932936 15251530 | 309 |
Folios 251382 | 382 |
NOTES | 463 |
SELECTED GLOSSARY | 511 |
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Afghans Agra Ahmad Akhsi Ali-Sher Amir Andizhan Arghun army arrow Baba Babur Baburnama Badakhshan Badi'uzzaman Mirza Bajaur Balkh Baqi Barlas battle Bayana Baysunghur Mirza Beg's Bhera boat brother brought Bukhara called camp Chaghatay citadel crossed Darwesh daughter defeated Dost enemy fortress garden gate Ghazni Hasan Hazaras Herat Hindu Hindustan Hissar horses Humayun Husayn Ibrahim ichkis infidels Jahangir Jahangir Mirza Kabul Khan's Khanïm Khodzhent Khurasan Khusrawshah Khwaja Kichik Konduz Kükäldash Laghman liege Mahdi Khwaja Mahmud majun marched Margilan Moghul Moghulistan morning mountains Muhammad Muhammad-Ali Mulla Nasir Mirza night padishah paid homage Persian princes province Qambar-Ali Qasim Beg raid river road rode Samarkand Sayyid sent Shah Shaybani Khan Shaykh side soldiers stopped Sultan Sultan Begim Sultan-Abusa'id Sultan-Ahmad Mirza Sultan-Ali Mirza Sultan-Husayn Mirza Sultan-Muhammad sword Taghayï Tambal Tarkhan Tashkent thousand Timurid took Transoxiana Turkish Ulughbeg Umar-Shaykh Ura-Tyube Uzbeks village warriors Wormwood Khan Yunus Yusuf