The Baburnama Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor [Paperback]

Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530),The Baburnamapresents 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.“One of the classics of world literature.” —The New York Times Book ReviewWheeler M. Thackstonis professor of the Practice in Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages at Harvard University, where he has taught for twenty years.

Salman Rushdieis the author ofMidnight’s Children(winner of the Booker Prize) and Fury, among others. His latest book isStep Across This Line.US