Dana Sajdi
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780804785327
- eISBN:
- 9780804788281
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804785327.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
This chapter is a literary exploration of the barber, Ibn Budayr's, chronicle. While his text is a “history” (tārīkh), it is heavily informed by the genre of the oral popular epic (sīra). Ibn ...
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This chapter is a literary exploration of the barber, Ibn Budayr's, chronicle. While his text is a “history” (tārīkh), it is heavily informed by the genre of the oral popular epic (sīra). Ibn Budayr's text displays newness in content and form, ranging from the inclusion of tragicomic sex scandals, to its use of colloquial Arabic and rhyming prose, to its high dramatic pitch, to its irregular beat that effects a persistent sense of doom. Ibn Budayr disturbs the complicity and order of the scholarly chronicle, and renders it a disorderly stage for protest. Given that this chapter is about the text, it also examines the actual physical text: the material and technical aspects of the unique manuscript of the barber's book found at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. This section attempts to answer questions regarding possible owners and users of the barber's book.Less
This chapter is a literary exploration of the barber, Ibn Budayr's, chronicle. While his text is a “history” (tārīkh), it is heavily informed by the genre of the oral popular epic (sīra). Ibn Budayr's text displays newness in content and form, ranging from the inclusion of tragicomic sex scandals, to its use of colloquial Arabic and rhyming prose, to its high dramatic pitch, to its irregular beat that effects a persistent sense of doom. Ibn Budayr disturbs the complicity and order of the scholarly chronicle, and renders it a disorderly stage for protest. Given that this chapter is about the text, it also examines the actual physical text: the material and technical aspects of the unique manuscript of the barber's book found at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. This section attempts to answer questions regarding possible owners and users of the barber's book.
