| Interpreting the Self |
| Acknowledgements |
 | Introduction |
| 1 |  | 1. PART I A Thousand Years of Arabic Autobiography |
| CHAPTER ONE The Fallacy of Western Origins |
| 1 | | CHAPTER TWO The Origins of Arabic Autobiography |
| CHAPTER THREE Toward a History of Arabic Autobiography |
| CHAPTER FOUR Arabic Autobiography and the Literary Portrayal of the Self |
| 25 | | 2. PART II Translations |
| The Autobiography of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq |
| The Autobiography of al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī |
| The Autobiography of al-Mu’ayyad fī al-Dīn Hibat Allāh al-Shīrāzī |
| The Autobiography of al-‘Imād al-Dīn al-Kātib al-Iṣfahānī |
| • | Introduction |
| • | Bibliography |
| The 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] |
| The Autobiography of ‘Abd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī |
| The Autobiography of Ibn al-‘Adīm |
| The Autobiography of Abū Shāma |
| The Autobiography of ‘Alā’ al-Dawla al-Simnānī |
| The Autobiography of Fray Anselmo Turmeda, ‘Abd Allāh al-Turjumān |
| The Autobiography of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī |
| The Autobiography of al-‘Aydarūs |
| 25 | | The Autobiography of Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī |
| The Autobiography of ‘Alī Mubārak |
| Conclusion |
| AN ANNOTATED GUIDE TO ARABIC AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS (NINTH TO NINETEENTH CENTURIES C.E.) |
| GLOSSARY |
| REFERENCES |