- Introduction [L. Marlow]
- The Testing of the Shāhnāma in the “Life of Ferdowsī” Narratives [Olga M. Davidson]
- Biography and the Image of a Medieval Historian: The Tārīkh-i-jahān-goshā of ‘Atā-Malek Jovaynī [Mohammad Jafar Mahallati]
- A Glorious Past and an Outstanding Present: Writing a Collection of Biographies in Late Persianate Central Asia [Maria Szuppe]
- Autobiography and Biography: The Turco-Mongol Case: Bābur, Haydar Mīrzā, Gulbadan Begim and Jahāngīr [Stephen Dale]
- Women’s Biographies in Islamic Societies: Mīrzā ‘Abd Allāh al-Isfahānī’s Riyād al-‘ulamā’ [Devin Stewart]
- Al-Ma’mūn and ‘Alī al-Ridā (Emām Reza) on Iranian Television [Michael Cooperson]
- Contributors
- Index
ILEX SERIES
Ilex Series 4
The Rhetoric of Biography
Narrating Lives in Persianate Societies
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Publication Date: 03/01/2011
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