Interpreting the Self
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  Acknowledgements

 collapse sectionIntroduction
 •Notes

1collapse section1. PART I A Thousand Years of Arabic Autobiography
 collapse section CHAPTER ONE  The Fallacy of Western Origins
 •Western Reception of Arabic Autobiography
 •Arabic Scholarship
 •General Misconceptions
 •Redefining the Issues
 •Notes
1collapse sectionCHAPTER TWO The Origins of Arabic Autobiography
 •Biographical Traditions: Early Prototypes
 •Biographical Writing: Literary Genres
 •Sīra (Exemplary Life Story)
1•Ṭabaqāt (Biographical Dictionaries)
 •Tarjama (Biographical Notice)
 •Autobiographical Subgenres
 •Other Influences
 •Notes
 collapse sectionCHAPTER THREE  Toward a History of Arabic Autobiography
 •Historical Clusters
 •Authorial Motivations
 •Autobiographical Anxieties
 •Notes
 collapse sectionCHAPTER FOUR  Arabic Autobiography and the Literary Portrayal of the Self
 •Essentializing the Self: Private Life and Personality in the Memoirs of Ibn Buluggīn
 •Historicizing the Self: Deciphering the Autobiography of Ibn Ḥajar
 •Reading for Stylistic Convention in the Autobiography of al-Suyūṭī
 •Dreams, Visions, and Unseen Voices
 •Poetry: An Alternative Discourse
 •Notes

25collapse section2. PART II Translations
 collapse sectionThe Autobiography of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq
 •Introduction
 •Bibliography
 •Epistle on the Trials and Tribulations Which Befell Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq  [‘Uyūn, pp. 257–74]
 •Notes
 collapse sectionThe Autobiography of al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī
 •Introduction
 •Bibliography
 •The Beginning of the Career of Abī ‘Abd Allāh [the Sage of Tirmidh]  [Khatm al-awliyā’, pp. 14–32]
 •Notes
 collapse sectionThe Autobiography of al-Mu’ayyad fī al-Dīn Hibat Allāh al-Shīrāzī
 •Introduction
 •Bibliography
 •The End of Ramadan  [Sīrat al-Mu’ayyad, pp. 5–11]
 •Fleeing Shiraz [pp. 68–72] sometime between 1042 and 1044/45:
 •Notes
 collapse sectionThe Autobiography of al-‘Imād al-Dīn al-Kātib al-Iṣfahānī
 •Introduction
 •Bibliography
 collapse sectionThe Pen and the Sword
 •Prologue  [Sanā al-barq, pp. 13–14]
 •How I arrived in Damascus [pp. 17–21]
 •How I entered the service of Nūr al-Dīn and changed the secretariat [pp. 22–23]
 •How I departed from Damascus and returned to Cairo [pp. 114–18]
 •How I was saved from the Battle of Ramla [p. 128]
 •How I avoided wielding the Sword [pp. 155–56]
 •A successful debate and how I came to have a residence in Damascus [pp. 286–88]
 •How I wrote the proclamations of the reconquest of Jerusalem [pp. 305, 313]
 collapse sectionThe Autobiography of ‘Abd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī
 •Introduction
 •Bibliography
 •Selections from the Autograph Notes of ‘Abd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī  [‘Uyūn, pp. 683–96]
 •Notes
 collapse sectionThe Autobiography of Ibn al-‘Adīm
 •Introduction
 •Bibliography
 •‘Umar ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Jarāda, known as Ibn al-‘Adīm  [Irshād, pp. 18–46]
 •Notes
 collapse sectionThe Autobiography of Abū Shāma
 •Introduction
 •Bibliography
 •The Life of Abū Shāma [al-Dhayl, pp. 37–39]
 •Notes
 collapse sectionThe Autobiography of ‘Alā’ al-Dawla al-Simnānī
 •Introduction
 •Bibliography
 •Finding the Straight Path  [al-‘Urwa, pp. 396–400]
 •Notes
 collapse sectionThe Autobiography of Fray Anselmo Turmeda, ‘Abd Allāh al-Turjumān
 •Introduction
 •Bibliography
 collapse sectionA Unique Find for the Intelligent Mind  [Tuhfat al-adīb, pp. 27–39]
 •Chapter One
 •Notes
 collapse sectionThe Autobiography of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī
 •Introduction
 •Bibliography
 collapse sectionChapter 17
 •The Incident of the House of Ill Repute  [Jalāl al-Dīn, 2:175–80]
 •Notes
 collapse sectionThe Autobiography of al-‘Aydarūs
 •Introduction
 •Bibliography
 •The Life of al‘Aydarūs  [al-Nūr, pp. 334–43]
 •Notes
25collapse sectionThe Autobiography of Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī
9•Introduction
 •Bibliography
16•An Account of the Life of the Author and the Events That Have Befallen Him  [Lu’lu’at al-Baḥrayn, pp. 442–49]
 •Notes
 collapse sectionThe Autobiography of ‘Alī Mubārak
 •Introduction
 •Bibliography
 •The Childhood of ‘Alī Mubārak  [al-Khiṭaṭ, vol. 9, pp. 37–42]
 •Notes
 collapse sectionConclusion
 •Personality and Self
 •Literary Conventions
 •The Status of Arabic Autobiographies as Texts
 •Into the Twentieth Century
 •Notes

 collapse sectionAN ANNOTATED GUIDE TO ARABIC AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS (NINTH TO NINETEENTH CENTURIES C.E.)
 •Abbreviations
 collapse sectionAuthors (by date of death)
 •Ninth Century
 •Tenth Century
 •Eleventh Century
 •Twelfth Century
 •Thirteenth Century
 •Fourteenth Century
 •Fifteenth Century
 •Sixteenth Century
 •Seventeenth Century
 •Eighteenth Century
 •Nineteenth Century
 •Twentieth Century [texts cover late nineteenth century]
  GLOSSARY
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