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The Barber of Damascus
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 lifetime. Dana Sajdi investigates the significance of this book, and in examining the life and work of Ibn Budayr, uncovers the emergence of a larger trend of history writing by unusual authors-people outside the learned establishment-and a new phenomenon: nouveau literacy.
The Barber of Damascus offers the first full-length microhistory of an individual commoner in Ottoman and Islamic history. Contributing to Ottoman popular history, Arabic historiography, and the little-studied cultural history of the 18th century Levant, the volume also examines the reception of the barber's book a century later to explore connections between the 18th and the late 19th centuries and illuminates new paths leading to the Nahda, the Arab Renaissance.
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Mutual Othering
For the first time, readings of Moroccan travel writing in Arabic
are juxtaposed with French and British writing about Morocco in a
critical exploration of nineteenth-century concepts of modernity.
Ahmed Idrissi Alami investigates the complex dynamics concerning
colonial expansion, military conflict, and societal values.
Mutual Othering sets out to rethink generally accepted
concepts of European modernity by critically examining its
production and contestation within a subaltern context in which the
native other-in this case, religious scholars or imams
accompanying political missions to Paris and London-presents
aspects of European culture to elite members of the Moroccan
imperial court. This work also connects the arguments of these
texts to the rethinking of tradition and modernity, the rhetoric of
reform, democracy and the Arab state, and the compatibility of
Islam with the West and secular values in the post-9/11 world. The
inclusion of citations in the original French and Arabic, alongside
English translations, allows a range of readers to enjoy this
critical addition to the fields of literature, travel writing,
North African studies, history, international relations, and
philosophy, as well as cultural and religious studies.
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