Abdul-Hamid Lahauri Edited and Translated by W. M. Thackston
Wheeler Thackston is a retired professor of Persian and other Near Eastern languages. He has translated the memoirs of Babur and Jahangir, several histories of Humayun, the Akbarnama, and Ghulam Husain Khan’s history of eighteenth-century India.
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