Autobiography and the construction of identity and community in the Middle East / ed. by Mary Ann Fay.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-240) and index.

Introduction / Mary Ann Fay -- Pt. 1. Critical Studies of Biography and Autobiography. 1. Biography as History: The Exemplary Life of Khayr al-Din al-Ramli / Judith E. Tucker. 2. The Transmission of Knowledge and the Education of the 'Ulama in Late Sixteenth-Century Maghrib: A Study of the Biographical Dictionary of Muhammad ibn Maryam / Osama Abi-Mershed. 3. Biography, Autobiography, and Identity in Early Modern Damascus / Steve Tamari. 4. Infamous Women and Famous Wombs: Biography, Gender, and Islamist Concepts of Community in Contemporary Egypt / Marilyn Booth. 5. Ideology, Identity, and Commitment in the Autobiography of Khalid Mohieddin / Didier Monciaud -- Pt. 2. Biography - History - Culture. 6. Shawikar Qadin: Woman of Power and Influence in Ottoman Cairo / Mary Ann Fay. 7. Looking for the Modern: A Biography of an Iraqi Modernist / Dina Rizk Khoury.

8. 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. 9. Kulthum Auda: The Forgotten Palestinian Ethnographer / Garay Menicucci -- Pt. 3. Biography and the Anthropological Encounter. 10. Between Political Epochs and Personal Lives: Formative Experiences of Egyptian Women Activists / Nadje S. Al-Ali. 11. Ambiguous Borders, Ambivalent Subjects: Being Sudanese in Twentieth-Century Egypt / Anita Hausermann Fabos -- Pt. 4. Reflections on Writing Auto/Biographically. 12. The Question of Writing Premodern Biographies of the Middle East / Virginia Aksan. 13. Writing Culture, Writing Lives: Fictional Boundaries / Cynthia Nelson. 14. "To Create and in Creating To Be Created": Reflections on the Mixing of Fiction and Memoir in Lina: A Portrait of a Damascene Girl and The House on Arnus Square / Samar Attar.