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

By Dana Sajdi

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780804788281
DOI
10.1515/9780804788281
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4548091 bytes)
Pages
312\311
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 13:39:31

Description

Told through the life and work of a barber—Ibn Budayr—this book explores emerging written historical forms by non-scholars in the 18th century Ottoman Empire to offer a revisionist history that connects 18th century society and culture to the 19th century Arab Renaissance.

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