Interpreting the Self Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition

Name: Interpreting the Self Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition
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ISBN: 9780520226678

ISBN-10: 0520226674

ISBN-13: 9780520226678

Edition: 2010

Authors: Dwight F. Reynolds

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Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography.Interpreting the Selfdiscusses nearly one hundred Arabic autobiographical texts and presents thirteen selections in translation. The authors of these autobiographies represent an astonishing variety of geographical areas, occupations, and religious affiliations. This pioneering study explores the origins, historical development, and distinctive characteristics of autobiography in the Arabic tradition, drawing from texts…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/18/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 345
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



A Thousand Years of Arabic Autobiography



The Fallacy of Western Origins


Western Reception of Arabic Autobiography


Redefining the Issues



The Origins of Arabic Autobiography


Biographical Traditions: Early Prototypes


Biographical Writing: Literary Genres


Sira (Exemplary Life Story)


Tabaqat (Biographical Dictionaries)


Tarjama (Biographical Notice)


Autobiographical Subgenres


Other Influences



Toward a History of Arabic Autobiography


Historical Clusters


Authorial Motivations


Autobiographical Anxieties



Arabic Autobiography and the Literary Portrayal of the Self


Essentializing the Self: Private Life and Personality in the Memoirs of Ibn Buluggin


Historicizing the Self: Deciphering the Autobiography of Ibn Hajar


Reading for Stylistic Convention in the Autobiography of al-Suyuti


Dreams, Visions, and Unseen Voices


Poetry: An Alternative Discourse



Translations


Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. 873 or 877)


Al-Tirmidhi (d. between 905 and 910)


Al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi (d. 1077)


'Imad al-Din al-Katib al-Isfahani (d. 1201)


'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (d. 1231)


Ibn al-'Adim (d. 1262)


Abu Shama (d. 1268)


Al-Simnani (d. 1336)


'Abd Allah al-Turjuman [Fray Anselmo Turmeda] (d. 1432?)


Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 1505)


Al-'Aydarus (d. 1628)


Yusuf al-Bahrani (d. 1772)


'Ali Mubarak (d. 1893)


Conclusion


Personality and Self


Literary Conventions


The Status of Arabic Autobiographies as Texts


Into the Twentieth Century


Annotated Guide to Arabic Autobiographical Writings


Glossary


References


List of Contributors


Index