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

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) Summary 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 book uncovers the emergence of a larger trend of history writing by unusual authors - people outside the learned establishment - and identifies a new phenomenon: nouveau literacy. The book also discusses the social and literary aspects of nouveau literacy within the context of a changing social, political, and urban topography in the eighteenth-century Levant Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 27, 2013) Subject Budayrī, Aḥmad, active 18th century SUBJECT Budayrī, Aḥmad, active 18th century. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01802024 Subject Arabic prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Barbers -- Syria -- Damascus -- Biography Literature and society -- Middle East -- History -- 18th century Arabic prose literature. Barbers. Historiography. Intellectual life. Literature and society. SUBJECT Middle East -- History -- 18th century -- Historiography Middle East -- Intellectual life -- 18th century Subject Middle East. Syria -- Damascus. Genre/Form Biographies. Biographies. Biographies. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. collective biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 0804788286 9780804788281

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