Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Biography as History....Pages 9-17
The Transmission of Knowledge and the Education of the ‘Ulama in Late Sixteenth-Century Maghrib....Pages 19-36
Biography, Autobiography, and Identity in Early Modern Damascus....Pages 37-49
Infamous Women and Famous Wombs....Pages 51-70
Ideology, Identity, and Commitment in the Autobiography of Khalid Mohieddin....Pages 71-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Shawikar Qadin....Pages 95-108
Looking for the Modern....Pages 109-124
The Worlds of George Antonius....Pages 125-138
Kulthum Auda....Pages 139-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Between Political Epochs and Personal Lives....Pages 155-176
Ambiguous Borders, Ambivalent Subjects....Pages 177-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
The Question of Writing Premodern Biographies of the Middle East....Pages 191-200
Writing Culture, Writing Lives....Pages 201-214
“To Create and in Creating to be Created”....Pages 215-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-245