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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sajdi, Dana
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Budayrī, Aḥmad, > active 18th century.
Budayrī, Aḥmad, > active 18th century
1700-1799
Barbers > Syria > Damascus > Biography.
Arabic prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Middle East > History > 18th century.
Coiffeurs > Syrie > Damas > Biographies.
Prose arabe > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
HISTORY / Middle East / General
Arabic prose literature.
Barbers.
Historiography.
Intellectual life.
Literature and society.
Middle East > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Middle East > History > 18th century > Historiography.
Moyen-Orient > Histoire > 18e siècle > Historiographie.
Middle East.
Syria > Damascus.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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