Baburnama

Memoirs of Zahir-ud-Din Muhammad Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire

The Bāburnāma or Tuzuk-i-Baburi (Chagatay: وقائع, romanized: Wäqāʾiʿ, lit. 'The Events'; Persian: بابر‌نامه, تزک بابری, romanized: Bāburnāma, Tūzak-i Bāburī, lit. 'Book of Babur') or is the memoirs of Ẓahīr-ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur (1483–1530), founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur. It is written in the Chagatai language, known to Babur as Türki "Turkic", the spoken language of the Timurids. During the reign of his grandson, the emperor Akbar, the work was translated into Classical Persian, the literary language of the Mughal court, by a courtier, Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, in 1589–90 CE (AH 998).

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