Bāburnāma (Chagatai/Persian: بابر نامہ;&acute;, literally: &#039;Book of Babur&#039; or &#039;Letters of Babur&#039;; alternatively known as Tuzk-e Babri) is the name given to the memoirs of Ẓahīr ud-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur (1483-1530), founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur. It is an autobiographical work, originally written in the Chagatai language, known to Babur as &#039;Turki&#039; (meaning Turkic), the spoken language of the Andijan-Timurids.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;

Because of Babur&#039;s cultural origin, his prose is highly Persianized in its sentence structure, morphology, and vocabulary, and also contains many phrases and smaller poems in Persian. During Emperor Akbar&#039;s reign, the work was completely translated to Persian by a Mughal courtier, Abdul Rahīm, in AH 998 (1589-90 CE).