Preferred Citation: Reynolds, Dwight F., editor Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  2001. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2c6004x0/

 
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Notes

1. For further information on al-Simnānī's life and thought, see Jamal J. Elias, The Throne Carrier of God: The Life and Thought of ‘Alā’ al-Dawla al-Simnānī (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995).

2. Arghūn was not a Muslim; the idols in question were probably figures of Buddha.

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Preferred Citation: Reynolds, Dwight F., editor Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  2001. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2c6004x0/