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The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant

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 | #930983 in Books |  Dana Sajdi |  2015-10-14 |  2013-10-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.80 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 312 pages

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||0 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Rather dry treatment of interesting character and his society|By nicholas johnson|The text is rather too dry and academic for me. No problems with the vendor.| |"The Barber of Damascus brings to life a world of unexpected writers of history. Ibn Budayr and his work as barber and historian disrupt our notions of genre and give us a marvelous portrait of Damascus in the eighteenth century." (Leslie Peirce New

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 18th 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 lifetime. Dana Sajdi investigates the significance of this book, and in examining the life and work of Ibn Budayr, uncovers the emergence of a larger trend of history writing by unusual author...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant   |  Dana Sajdi. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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