His works that have come down to us testify to the versatility and genre diversity of Babur’s work.
Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur was not only a major statesman and commander of his time, but also a sensitive poet, writer, translator and mature scholar.
He left humanity a rich literary and scientific heritage. His works that have come down to us testify to the versatility and genre diversity of Babur’s work. In his works, the reader sees the image of a scientist and thinker, a lover of the beauty of man and nature, a connoisseur of the best moral qualities, accurately reflecting current historical events, condemning evil and hypocrisy, impartially observing the activities of historical figures, able to evaluate the work of scientists, poets and artists from the standpoint of advanced traditions of that time. Babur is considered a great personality who left an indelible mark on the history of mankind thanks to his progressive views and merits in the development of science.
In the rich and priceless scientific and literary heritage that Babur left to his descendants, his “Baburnama” undoubtedly brought world fame to our great ancestor.
Scientists who observed the translations of this masterpiece of Babur into different languages noted an interesting phenomenon: it turned out that the book was published in different languages of the world under more than twenty titles.
For example: “Voqeoti Boburiy ”, “Voqeanomayi podshohi”, “Tabaqoti Boburiy”, “Tuzuki Boburiy”, “Vaqoye’”, “Voqeanoma”, “Bobur podshohning tarjimayi holi”, “Boburiya”, “Bobur memuarlari”, “Esdaliklar”, “Bobur tarixi”, “G‘aroyib tarjimayi hol”, “Sharhlar”, “Ma’murnoma”, “Boburning hayoti”, “Tuzuk”, “Podshohnoma”, “Bobur xotiroti”, “Bobur bitiklari”, “Baburnama ingliz tilida” and etc. (“The Story of Babur”, “The King of Events”, “Tabaqoti Baburi”, “Tuzuki Baburi”, “Vaqoye’”, “Voqeanoma”, “Biography of King Babur”, “Baburiya”, “Memoirs of Babur”, “Reminiscences”, “History of Babur”, “Strange Biography”, “Commentaries”, “Administration”, “Life of Babur”, “Tuzuk”, “Podshahnoma”, “Memory of Babur”, “Writings of Babur”, “Baburnama in English”).
The information in “Baburnama” is so diverse that specialists from almost all fields of science can enjoy this work.
Thanks to the reliability of these facts, the historian receives important information regarding the history of Central Asia, Khorasan, Afghanistan and India of that time, the natural scientist receives information regarding the topography, economic geography of these countries, knowledge and ideas regarding the animal world; a botanist gets acquainted with the world of plants, an ethnographer with everyday life, encounters interesting details of the customs of various local peoples inhabiting these places, a linguist can imagine the state of the Uzbek literary language in that period, and a literary critic can imagine the literary environment of that era.
Thanks to these qualities, “Baburname” has been attracting the attention of many scientists around the world for many years and is highly valued by them.