Both 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.