Interpreting the self: autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1 PART ONE A Thousand Years of Arabic Autobiography The Fallacy of Western Origins 17 The Origins of Arabic Autobiography 36 Toward a History of Arabic Autobiography 52 Arabic Autobiography and the Literary Portrayal of the Self 72 PART TWO Translations Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. 873 or 877) 107 Al-Tirmidhi (d. between 905 and 910) 119 Al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi (d. 1077) 132 'Imad al-Din al-Katib al-Isfahani (d. 1201) 145 'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (d. 1231) 156 Ibn al-'Adim (d. 1262) 165 Abu Shama (d. 1268) 179 Al-Simnani (d. 1336) 188 'Abd Allah al-Turjuman [Fray Anselmo Turmeda) (d. 1432?) 194 Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 1505) 202 Al-'Aydarus (d. 1628) 208 Yusuf al-Bahrani (d. 1772) 216 'Ali Mubarak (d. 1893) 224 Conclusion 241 Annotated Guide to Arabic Autobiographical Writings 255 Glossary 289 References 295 List of Contributors 311 Index 313

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