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Wheeler McIntosh Thackston (born 1944) is an AmericanOrientalist. He has edited and translated numerousChaghatai,Arabic, andPersian literary and historical works.

Thackston is a graduate ofPrinceton's Oriental Studies department, where he was a member of Princeton'sColonial Club, andHarvard's Near Eastern Studies department (Ph.D., 1974), where he was Professor of the Practice of Persian and other Near Eastern Languages from 1972. He studied at Princeton underMartin Dickson and at Harvard withAnnemarie Schimmel. Thackston retired from teaching at Harvard in 2007.

His best-known works arePersian andClassical and Qur'anic Arabicgrammars and his translations of theBabur-nama, the memoirs of theMughal prince and emperorBabur,The Gulistan ofSaadi, and the memoirs of EmperorJahangir, or theJahangir-nama. He has also produced important manuals or editions of texts inLevantine Arabic,Ottoman Turkish,Syriac,Uzbek,Luri, andKurdish.

He has also studiedUrdu andSindhi but has not published texts from these languages.

Thackston has retired from his position at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, at Harvard University. He currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[1]

• The History ofAkbar, Volume 1 (theAkbarnama), byAbu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, edited and translated by Wheeler Thackston,Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press (January 2015), hardcover, 656 pages,ISBN 9780674427754.
• Thackston, W. M.; Gulbadan, Begam; Jawhar; Biyāt, Bāyazīd, eds. (2009). Three memoirs of Humayun. Bibliotheca Iranica. Costa Mesa, Calif: Mazda Publishers.ISBN 978-1-56859-178-0.
• Nāṣir-i Khusraw; Thackston, W. M. (2001). Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of travels: Safarnāmah. Bibliotheca Iranica. Costa Mesa, Calif: Mazda Publishers.ISBN 978-1-56859-137-7.
• Thackston, Wheeler M. (2001).Album Prefaces and Other Documents on the History of Calligraphers and Painters. Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN 9789004472495. Leiden Boston: BRILL.ISBN 978-90-04-49230-1.
• ʻĀrifī; Thackston, W. M.; Ziai, Hossein (1999). Gūy va chawgān, yā, Ḥālnāmah: The Ball and Polo Stick, or, The Book of Ecstacy: Parallel Persian-English Text. Bibliotheca Iranica. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers.ISBN 978-1-56859-090-5.
• Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash; Thackston, W. M.; Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash; Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash (1999). The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical Treatises. Bibliotheca Iranica. Costa Mesa, Calif: Mazda Publishers.ISBN 978-1-56859-091-2.
• Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan (1999).The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India. Translated by Thackston, Wheeler M. Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-512718-8.

• Professor Thackston's Sorani and Kurmanji Kurdish grammars
• Thackston, W. M., ed. (1989),A Century of Princes: Sources on Timurid History and Art, The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,ISBN 092267311X
• The Emperors' album: images of Mughal India, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which includes an essay by Thackston

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