In this world, a very adventurous life falls to some people’s share. Although some of them die living it in themselves, some people record the events they experience and want them to be known by others. The remembrance is a literary genre emerged in this way over the centuries. Although seen in previous eras, it has gained wide acceptance in modern times. These works, contain important written records of the person’s life, who wrote them and the period in which they were written. We, therefore, we have learned a lot about the past. Thus, the personalities, who revealed the remembrance, mirror not only themselves, but also the period in which they lived. One of the works mentioned, is Zahiruddin Muhammed Babur’s Vekayi bearing his name. It became famous as Baburname. It is considered as the first detailed memoir of the Turks. Babur, who was descendant of Tamerlane, came to the throne, when he was a child upon death of his father in an accident. In the struggles for sovereignty, which coincided with the disintegration period of of Timurids, he had selected the way to struggle with his relatives in order to be accepted. From time to time she experienced great loneliness, gave way to despair; made sometimes unexpected conquests with his crowded army. As he was defeated in the struggle against his close relatives and that he could not hold on in Central Asia, resulted in expansion of the sovereignty of Muslim Turks to Afghanistan and India. His life of reign was
Babur, Baburname, Vekayi, Turkmen, Turkmens.
Author : | Mehmet KARA |
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Number of pages: | 95-102 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.8155 |
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