The barber of Damascus : nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant /

This book is about a barber, Shihab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr, who shaved and coiffed, and probably circumcised and healed, in Damascus in the eighteenth century. The barber may have been a "nobody," but he wrote a history book, a record of the events that took place in his city during his l...

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Main Author:	Sajdi, Dana (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013 Stanford, California : [2013]
Subjects:	Budayrī, Aḥmad, > active 18th century Budayrī, Aḥmad, > active 18th century 1700 - 1799 1700-1799 1700-talet 18th century Arabic prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism Barbers > Syria > Damascus > Biography Literature and society > Middle East > History > 18th century Arabic prose literature Arabisk litteratur > historia Barbers Historiografi Historiography History Intellectual life Intellektuellt liv Literature and society Middle East > History > 18th century > Historiography Middle East > Intellectual life > 18th century Middle East Region Middle East Syria > Damascus Syrien > Damaskus Biographies Biography Criticism, interpretation, etc
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