Interpreting the Self - Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition

Informationen zum Autor Dwight F. Reynolds is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California! Santa Barbara. Coauthors: Kristen E. Brustad! Michael Cooperson! Jamal J. Elias! Nuha N. N. Khoury! Joseph E. Lowry! Nasser Rabbat! Devin J. Stewart and Shawkat M. Toorawa Klappentext A comprehensive work on the autobiographical tradition in Arabic letters! which includes a detailed introduction to the genre and a selection of autobiographical texts ranging from the 9th to the 19th centuries. Zusammenfassung Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment, this work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. It discusses nearly one hundred Arabic autobiographical texts and presents thirteen selections in translation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1 PART ONE A Thousand Years of Arabic Autobiography The Fallacy of Western Origins 17 The Origins of Arabic Autobiography 36 Toward a History of Arabic Autobiography 52 Arabic Autobiography and the Literary Portrayal of the Self 72 PART TWO Translations Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. 873 or 877) 107 Al-Tirmidhi (d. between 905 and 910) 119 Al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi (d. 1077) 132 'Imad al-Din al-Katib al-Isfahani (d. 1201) 145 'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (d. 1231) 156 Ibn al-'Adim (d. 1262) 165 Abu Shama (d. 1268) 179 Al-Simnani (d. 1336) 188 'Abd Allah al-Turjuman [Fray Anselmo Turmeda) (d. 1432?) 194 Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 1505) 202 Al-'Aydarus (d. 1628) 208 Yusuf al-Bahrani (d. 1772) 216 'Ali Mubarak (d. 1893) 224 Conclusion 241 Annotated Guide to Arabic Autobiographical Writings 255 Glossary 289 References 295 List of Contributors 311 Index 313 ...

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• Authors: Kristen E. Brustad, Michael Cooperson, Dwight F. Reynolds
• Assisted by: Dwight F. Reynolds (Editor), Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (Editor), Reynolds Dwight F. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2001
• EAN: 9780520226678
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22667-8
• No. of pages: 345
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, Arabic, Regional Studies, Literary studies: general, Regional / International studies