«‘The facts are as stated here . . . I have set down of good and bad whatever is known.’ The Babur Nama, a journal kept by Zahir Uddin Muhammad Babur (1483–1530), the founder of the Mughal Empire, is the earliest example of autobiographical writing in world literature, and one of the finest. Against the turbulent backdrop of medieval history, it paints a precise and vivid picture of life in Central Asia and Afghanistan—where Babur ruled in Samarkand and Kabul—and in the Indian subcontinent, where his dazzling military career culminated in the founding of a dynasty that lasted three centuries. Babur was far more than a skilled, often ruthless, warrior and master strategist. In this abridged and edited version of a 1921 English translation of his memoirs, he also emerges as a sensitive aesthete, naturalist, poet and lover. Writer, journalist and internationally acclaimed Middle eastern and Central asian expert, Dilip Hiro breathes new life into a unique historical document that is at once objective and intensely personal—for, in Babur’s words, ‘the truth should be reached in every matter’.» Davomini o'qish

      Заҳириддин Бобурнинг 47 йиллик умри тинимсиз муҳорабалар, қариндош-уруғлар, темурий шаҳзодалар ва бекларнинг бирин-кетин қилган хиёнатлари, фарзандларининг бевақт вафоти муҳитида ўтиб, умрининг охирларида турли касалликлар бу иродаси мустаҳкам кишининг ҳам руҳиятига таъсир этган. “Бобурнома”да биз муаллифнинг бундай машаққатларга нақадар бардош бергани, айрим ҳолатларда дарднинг зўрайиши кўзларига аччиқ ёш, танасига чидамсиз дардни келтириб чиқарганлигини кўрамиз. Муаллиф шу ҳолатлар тасвирини берар экан, насрий матндан кўнгли тўлмайди, ички туғёни, ҳасратларини тўла баён эта олмаганлигини сезиб, кўпинча ўз рубоий, ғазаллари билан, айрим ҳолларда бошқа буюк адиблар — Саъдий, Ҳофиз шеърлари билан насрий матнни бойитади. Davomini o'qish