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Autobiography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Mary Ann Fay

    1. American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Mary Ann Fay
      Pages 1-5

  3. Critical Studies of Biography and Autobiography

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Biography as History

      • Judith E. Tucker
      Pages 9-17

    3. The Transmission of Knowledge and the Education of the ‘Ulama in Late Sixteenth-Century Maghrib

      • Osama Abi-Mershed
      Pages 19-36

    4. Biography, Autobiography, and Identity in Early Modern Damascus

      • Steve Tamari
      Pages 37-49

    5. Infamous Women and Famous Wombs

      • Marilyn Booth
      Pages 51-70

    6. Ideology, Identity, and Commitment in the Autobiography of Khalid Mohieddin

      • Didier Monciaud
      Pages 71-91

  4. Biography—History—Culture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Shawikar Qadin

      • Mary Ann Fay
      Pages 95-108

    3. Looking for the Modern

      • Dina Rizk Khoury
      Pages 109-124

    4. The Worlds of George Antonius

      • William L. Cleveland
      Pages 125-138

    5. Kulthum Auda

      • Garay Menicucci
      Pages 139-151

  5. Biography and the Anthropological Encounter

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. Between Political Epochs and Personal Lives

      • Nadje S. Al-Ali
      Pages 155-176

    3. Ambiguous Borders, Ambivalent Subjects

      • Anita Häusermann Fábos
      Pages 177-188

  6. Reflections on Writing Auto/Biographically

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. The Question of Writing Premodern Biographies of the Middle East

      • Virginia Aksan
      Pages 191-200

    3. Writing Culture, Writing Lives

      • Cynthia Nelson
      Pages 201-214

    4. “To Create and in Creating to be Created”

      • Samar Attar
      Pages 215-226
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About this book

Ranging from the early modern period to the present day, this edited collection uses biography as a window into the history of the Arab-Islamic Middle East. The contributors reinterpret the lives of the famous such as George Antonius and Doria Shafiq and rediscover the lives of individuals previously consigned to the margins of history, including the notorious individuals of 17th-century Syria and the 20th-century Palestinian activist Kulthum Auda. The book also draws on the biographical tradition of Arab historical writing, including biographical dictionaries, for an understanding of the region s social and cultural history. Interdisciplinary in scope and theoretically informed, this volume brings to light individual lives which are essential to an understanding of Middle Eastern history.

Editors and Affiliations

  • American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    Mary Ann Fay

About the editor

Mary Ann Fay is Assistant Professor of History at the American University of Sharjah.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Autobiography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East

  • Editors: Mary Ann Fay

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62114-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-21966-6Published: 01 January 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-62114-9Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 245

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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