The barber of Damascus [electronic resource] : nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant / Dana Sajdi.
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TextPublication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013Description: xv, 293 p. : ill., mapsISBN: 9780804788281 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Budayri, Ahmad, active 18th century | Barbers -- Syria -- Damascus -- Biography | Arabic prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Literature and society -- Middle East -- History -- 18th century | Middle East -- Intellectual life -- 18th century | Middle East -- History -- 18th century -- HistoriographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 956.91/4403092 | B LOC classification: DS97.6.B83 | S25 2013Online resources: Click to View Includes bibliographical references and index.
The disorders of a new order : the Levant in the long 18th-century -- A barber at the gate : a social and intellectual biography -- "Cheap" monumentality : the nouveau literates and their texts -- Authority and history : the genealogy of the Levantine 18th-century contemporary chronicle -- A room of his own : the "history" of the barber of Damascus -- Cutting the barber's tale : the afterlives of a history -- Conclusion : from nouveau literacy to print journalism.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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