The Baburnama

作者 Wheeler M. Thackston著
出版社 Random House
出版时间 2002年9月
ISBN 9780375761379
定价 159.70

内容简介

BothanofficialchronicleandthehighlypersonalmemoiroftheemperorBabur(1483–1530),TheBaburnamapresentsavividandextraordinarilydetailedpictureoflifeinAfghanistan,Pakistan,andIndiaduringthelate-fifteenthandearly-sixteenthcenturies.Babur'shonestandintimatechronicleisthefirstautobiographyinIslamicliterature,writtenatatimewhentherewasnohistoricalprecedentforapersonalnarrative—nowinasparklingnewtranslationbyIslamicscholarWheelerThackston.ThisModernLibraryPaperbackClassicseditionincludesnotes,indices,maps,andillustrations.

作者简介

WheelerM.ThackstonisprofessorofthePracticeinPersianandOtherNearEasternLanguagesatHarvardUniversity,wherehehastaughtfortwentyyears.SalmanRushdieistheauthorofMidnight'sChildren(winneroftheBookerPrize)andFury,amongothers.HislatestbookisStepAcrossThisLine.

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