Sajdi, Dana.

The barber of Damascus nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant / [electronic resource] : Dana Sajdi. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013. - xv, 293 p. : ill., maps.

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.

9780804788281 (electronic bk.)




Budayri, Ahmad, active 18th century.


Barbers--Syria--Damascus--Biography.
Arabic prose literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Literature and society--History--Middle East--18th century.


Middle East--Intellectual life--18th century.
Middle East--History--Historiography.--18th century


Electronic books.

DS97.6.B83 / S25 2013

956.91/4403092 B