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Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, ix, 336 pp. Contents: 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 & the Literary Portrayal of the Self: Essentializing the Self: Private Life & 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 & Unseen Voices; Poetry: An Alternative Discourse: Translations; Conclusion: Personality & Self; Literary Conventions; The Status of Arabic Autobiographers as Texts; Into the Twentieth Century; Annotated Guide to Arabic Autobiographical Writings.
