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Biography writing in the Middle East,
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This review is from: Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East (Hardcover)
In error, one of the Publisher's book reviews states that "Auto/Biography" pertains to health and economic concerns in Africa; big error, instead, "Auto/Biography" pertains to a handful of biographers of personalities in Middle Eastern countries. Thirteen authors contributed fourteen articles pertaining to the development of biographical writing in the Middle East during the past 1,000 years. Their articles are on the subjects of: Khary al-Din al-Ramli (the Prophet's biographer); Muhammad ibn Maryam and his 16th-century biographical dictionary; Identity in early modern 18th-century Damascus (M. Khalil, ibn Kannan); Infamous women and famous wombs in contemporary Egypt; the Autobiography of military officer Khalid Mohieddin (1990); Women of power in Ottoman Cairo (c. 1700-1850 A.D., re: emancipated female slaves); Biography of an Iraqi modernist: liberal scholar Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi (1890s); George Antonius in pre-WWII Middle East; Palestinian ethnographer Kulthum Auda (1930s); some `Egyptian Women Activists' [c. 1920-1990: Aida, Shahida, Amal] by author Nadje S. al-Ali; `Being Sudanese in Twentieth-century Egypt'; and `The Question of Writing Pre-modern Biographies of the Middle East' (1990s) by Virginia Aksan. Wow, a variety of topics; for the scholar/writer who is interested in studying how the style of biographical writing developed (especially from Muslim/Arab perspectives). Even Virginia Woolf is quoted (p. 204).
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Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East by Mary Ann Fay (Hardcover - January 12, 2002)
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