Wheeler M. Thackston is Professor of the Practice of Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the author of widely used grammars of Persian and Classical Arabic and the translator of the Bāburnāma, the Jahāngīrnāma, and the Akbarnāma.

Of all the great monarchs to have ruled over India—a land whose history is richer and more turbulent than that of almost any other—the one who most retains our modern-day attention is Akbar, Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605…[The History of Akbar] includes accounts of his court and his governance, as well as of the wars, alliances and intrigues of his time…Thackston’s translation is the first complete rendition into English of Abu’l-Fazl’s Persian text since Henry Beveridge, a British orientalist and imperial civil servant, completed his version in 1921…Thackston’s English is modern and…[his] translation…is impressively meticulous.

Wheeler M. Thackston is Professor of the Practice of Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the author of widely used grammars of Persian and Classical Arabic and the translator of the Bāburnāma, the Jahāngīrnāma, and the Akbarnāma.

Of all the great monarchs to have ruled over India—a land whose history is richer and more turbulent than that of almost any other—the one who most retains our modern-day attention is Akbar, Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605…[The History of Akbar] includes accounts of his court and his governance, as well as of the wars, alliances and intrigues of his time…Thackston’s translation is the first complete rendition into English of Abu’l-Fazl’s Persian text since Henry Beveridge, a British orientalist and imperial civil servant, completed his version in 1921…Thackston’s English is modern and…[his] translation…is impressively meticulous.

Wheeler M. Thackston is Professor of the Practice of Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the author of widely used grammars of Persian and Classical Arabic and the translator of the Bāburnāma, the Jahāngīrnāma, and the Akbarnāma.

Of all the great monarchs to have ruled over India—a land whose history is richer and more turbulent than that of almost any other—the one who most retains our modern-day attention is Akbar, Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605…[The History of Akbar] includes accounts of his court and his governance, as well as of the wars, alliances and intrigues of his time…Thackston’s translation is the first complete rendition into English of Abu’l-Fazl’s Persian text since Henry Beveridge, a British orientalist and imperial civil servant, completed his version in 1921…Thackston’s English is modern and…[his] translation…is impressively meticulous.