GULBADANBEGUM’S HUMAYUNNAMA BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: A COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF ITS LITERARY-CRITICAL RECEPTION
Keywords:
Gulbadanbegum, Humayunnama, the Baburid period, memoir literature, translation studies, historical-literary work, oriental studies, textual criticism of translation, gender studiesAbstract
This article explores the ways in which “Humayunnama,” authored by the Timurid princess Gulbadanbegum, has been received across Eastern (Uzbek, Indian, and Persian) scholarly circles, and outlines the successive phases of its academic study from a comparative-historical angle. It considers the circumstances surrounding the work’s composition, its stylistic hallmarks, and its status within the memoir-historical genre, while organizing the body of research produced since the late nineteenth century into distinct periods. The article further sets Sabohat Azimjonova’s Uzbek translation from Persian and alongside Annette Beveridge’s English translation as used in Indo-English historiography, weighing their respective scholarly contributions. The findings highlight both the shared ground and the divergences between how Eastern and Western scholars have read the text.
