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

Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn Budayr shaved and coiffed, and probably circumcised and healed, in Damascus in the eighteenth century. The barber wrote a history book, a chronicle of the events that took place in his city during his lifetime. Examining the 'life and work' of Ibn Budayr, the boo...

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Main Author: Sajdi, Dana
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.
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