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 |
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 |
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 |
The Autobiography of ‘Alī Mubārak |
Conclusion |
AN ANNOTATED GUIDE TO ARABIC AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS (NINTH TO NINETEENTH CENTURIES C.E.) |
GLOSSARY |
REFERENCES |