<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor of Babur (1483-1530), "The Baburnama" presents a vivid picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Persia, and India during the late 15th and early 16th centuries.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483-1530), <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'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. <p/>This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes notes, indices, maps, and illustrations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"One of the classics of world literature." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Wheeler M. Thackston</b> is professor of the Practice in Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages at Harvard University, where he has taught for twenty years. <p/><b>Salman Rushdie</b> is the author of <i>Midnight's Children</i> (winner of the Booker Prize) and Fury, among others. His latest book is <i>Step Across This Line</i>.