About this title: A dialogue on the role of biography and the interpretation of self-narrative in the Middle East. The dearth of intimate source materials, the discrepancy between public and private personae of Muslim intellectuals and the sense of propriety challenge this genre.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Stated First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Syracuse Univ. Press 1991.
Date Published: 1991
Description: As New in As New in Mylar Cover jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Stated First Edition. ISBN: 08156025480. As new HB in like DJ. Notes, index. 8 essays on approaches to writing biography and reading self-narratives of Middle Eastern lives. 1st Ed. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd), Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780815625483ISBN:0815625480
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 0815625480 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 167 pg. Clean, tight and bright book, dj is covered in clear protective mylar. 1b4-1. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Syracuse University Press, NY
Date Published: 1991
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Beautiful copy of this work which offers "an impressive array of scholars, biographers, and critics from the disciplines of anthropology, history, political science, and psychology", exploring the diversity of approaches both to writing biography and reading self-narratives. read more
Edition: 1st edition.
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780815625483ISBN:0815625480
Description: Cloth, dj, F/F. x+167pp, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. A collection of 8 papers which Study the changes which have occured in the way in which lives & tales of peoples deeds are told & handed down in the middle east. A Change from uncritical narrative to more standard biography. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Cloth Bds
Publisher: Syracuse University Press, New York
Date Published: 1991
Description: Very Good++ bright clean copy in VG+ dustwrapper. 8vo. dustwrapper. 167pp. A series of essays discussing aspects of biographical writing and self-narrative in the Middle East; 'an impressive array of scholars, biographers, and critics from the disciplines of anthropology, history, political science, and psychology explore the diversity of approaches both to writing biography and to reading self-narratives'; essays by Bernard Lewis, Marvin Zonis, Elie Kedourie, Martin Kramer, and others. read more
Description: Middle Eastern Lives: The Practice of Biography and Self-Narrative. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse U, (c. 1991). 1st ed. index, viii, 167p. Brown cloth. dj. 21cm. Extensive pencil annotations and underlinings. Name on endpaper. Edited by Martin Kramer. Essays by various authors. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY
Date Published: (1991) 1st ed
Description: fine w/fine dustjacket. 167pp. In this volume, an impressive array of scholars, biographers, and critics from the disciplines of anthropology, history, political science, and psychology explore the diversity of approaches both to writing biography and to reading self-narratives. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Syracuse Univ.
Date Published: 1991
Description: Very Good/Very Good. 08156025480 Contemporary issues in the Middle East. Proceedings of a conference at Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern studies. read more
Edition: First edition, first printing
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Syracuse University Press, Syracuse
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780815625483ISBN:0815625480
Description: Fine in Very Fine DJ. The Practice of Biography and Self-Narrative read more
Description: Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1991. viii, 167pp. Cloth. Dustjacket. Excellent. Contributors-: Martin Kramer, Bernard Lewis, Dale F Eickelman, Marvin Zonis, Elie Kedourie, Vamik D. Volkan Norman Itzkowitz, Shabtai Teveth and Uriel Dann. read more
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