Auto/biography and the construction of identity and community in the Middle East /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Palgrave,
2002.
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| Edition: | lst ed. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Biography as history : the exemplary life of Khayr al-Din al-Ramli / Judith E. Tucker
- The transmission of knowledge and the education of the ʻulama in late sixteenth Maghrib : a study of the biographical dictionary of Muhammad ibn Maryam / Osama Abi-Mershed
- Biography, autobiography, and identity in early modern Damascus / Steve Tamari
- Infamous women and famous wombs : biography, gender, and Islamist concepts of community in contemporary Egypt / Marilyn Booth
- Ideology, identity, and commitment in the autobiography of Khalid Mohieddin / Didier Monciaud
- Shawikar Qadin : woman of power and influence in Ottoman Cairo / Mary Ann Fay
- Looking for the modern : a biography of an Iraqi modernist / Dina Rizk Khoury
- The worlds of George Antonius : identity, culture, and the making of an Anglo-Arab in the pre-World War II Middle East/ William L. Cleveland
- Kulthum Auda : the forgotten Palestinian ethnographer / Garay Menicucci
- Between political epochs and personal lives : formative experiences of Egyptian women activists / Nadje S. Al-Ali
- Ambiguous borders, ambivalent subjects : being Sudanese in twentieth-century Egypt / Anita Häusermann Fábos
- The question of writing premodern biographies of the Middle East / Virginia Aksan
- Writing culture, writing lives : fictional boundaries / Cynthia Nelson
- "To create and in creating to be created:" reflections on the mixing of fiction and memoir in Lina : a portrait of Damascene girl and the house on Arnus Square / Samar Attar.