| 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 |
| • | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |