Interview with Dana Sajdi on The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant, by Dana Sajdi
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 lifetim...
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| Online Access: | https://www.youtube.com/embed/WQlAQLSFqk8 http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:102657 |