The number of English-language biographies of Arab subjects is tiny compared to the number of English-language biographies of North American and European subjects. I argue that this discrepancy is due to three main factors: the preponderance of historians of Europe and North America in history departments in the English-speaking world; the limited crossover market for serious biographies of Arab subjects; and difficulties arising from access to, and the style of, the Arabic sources. A fragment from the life-story of Fawzi al-Qawuqji, an early-20th-century Arab nationalist and soldier, is introduced as a way of pointing to the challenges ...
Within the framework of my doctoral research I have been exploring the ways of in-depth computer-ass...
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This chapter examines the Arabic biographical tradition. The genre of biographical writing is a cele...
In Chapter one, I presented a comparative definition of the meaning of Sirah (PI.Siyar), Tarjamah (P...
The art of biography is one of the finest and highest arts in importance and status, as it sometimes...
In memoirs, Arab writers have invoked solitude in moments of deep public involvement. Focusing on Ta...
Biography has been for the last fifty years the stepchild of history. Drawing on the ...
The historiography about the beginnings of modern Arabic literature is usually centered on developme...
Piśmiennictwo biograficzne jest jedną z najobszerniejszych dziedzin arabskiej literatury. Jedną z na...
This paper aims at analysing the network of contacts (ṣilāt, rawābiṭ) between maghribi and sudanese ...
Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the We...
<p><em>This paper deals with biographical dictionaries-one of the main genres in Muslim historiograp...
This dissertation is a theoretical inquiry into how modern Arab identity was formed during nineteent...
The question this project addresses is why modern Moroccan narrative developed largely along the gen...
Within the framework of my doctoral research I have been exploring the ways of in-depth computer-ass...
Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DX214520 / BLDSC - British Library Documen...
International audienceCe volume est né d’une interrogation sur les diverses manières dont les scienc...
This chapter examines the Arabic biographical tradition. The genre of biographical writing is a cele...
In Chapter one, I presented a comparative definition of the meaning of Sirah (PI.Siyar), Tarjamah (P...
The art of biography is one of the finest and highest arts in importance and status, as it sometimes...
In memoirs, Arab writers have invoked solitude in moments of deep public involvement. Focusing on Ta...
Biography has been for the last fifty years the stepchild of history. Drawing on the ...
The historiography about the beginnings of modern Arabic literature is usually centered on developme...
Piśmiennictwo biograficzne jest jedną z najobszerniejszych dziedzin arabskiej literatury. Jedną z na...
This paper aims at analysing the network of contacts (ṣilāt, rawābiṭ) between maghribi and sudanese ...
Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the We...
<p><em>This paper deals with biographical dictionaries-one of the main genres in Muslim historiograp...
This dissertation is a theoretical inquiry into how modern Arab identity was formed during nineteent...
The question this project addresses is why modern Moroccan narrative developed largely along the gen...
Within the framework of my doctoral research I have been exploring the ways of in-depth computer-ass...
Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DX214520 / BLDSC - British Library Documen...
International audienceCe volume est né d’une interrogation sur les diverses manières dont les scienc...