Contents

• Acknowledgements

• Introduction
• 1. PART I A Thousand Years of Arabic Autobiography
  • CHAPTER ONE  The Fallacy of Western Origins
  • 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
• 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
  • 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