 | The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant Subjects: Ibn Budayr Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad active eighteenth century; al-Budayri Ahmad active eighteenth century; Barbers -- Syria -- Damascus -- Biography; Arabic prose literature -- Eighteenth century -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Middle E; No detailed description available for "The Barber of Damascus". Dana Sajdi is Associate Professor of History at Boston College. She is the editor of Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century (2008) and coeditor of Transforming Loss into Beauty: Essays in Arabic Literature and Culture in Memory of Madga Al-Nowaihi (2008). |
