Middle Eastern Lives
Subtitle: The Practice of Biography and Self-Narrative (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: November 1991
Place of publication: Syracuse, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780815625483
Subjects: Islamic studies; Literary studies: general; Middle East; Biography And Autobiography; Literary Criticism; Self in literature; Autobiography; Authorship; Biography as a literary form; Congresses
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Martin Kramer; title: First-person narrative in the Middle East / Bernard Lewis; title: Traditional Islamic learning and ideas of the person in the twentieth century / Dale F. Eickelman; title: Autobiography and biography in the Middle East : a plea for psychopolitical studies / Marvin Zonis; title: Biography and psychohistory / Elie Kedourie; title: A response to critics of a psychobiography / Vamik D. Volkan and Norman Itzkowitz; title: History versus biography / Shabtai Teveth; title: The biographical element in political history / Uriel Dann; title: A sampler of biography and self-narrative / Martin Kramer