The Rhetoric of Biography: Narrating Lives in Persianate Societies (Ilex Series)

by StephenF.Dale (Author), Michael Cooperson (Author), OlgaM.Mahallati (Author), OlgaM.Davidson (Author), L.Marlow (Author)

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  2011

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  Within a growing scholarly literature devoted to the topics of biography and autobiography, especially in the Arabic literary tradition, the essays in this volume explore the forms and meanings of these genres with particular reference to Persian writings, as well as to writings in Arabic and Turkish that were also composed in Persianate societies.