The barber of Damascus :
Sajdi, Dana,
The barber of Damascus : nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant / Dana Sajdi. - Califonia Stanford University Press 2013 - xv, 293 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.
The disorders of a new order : the Levant in the long eighteenth 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 eighteenth century Levantine 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.
9780804785327 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804785325 (cloth : alk. paper)
2013005612
Budayrī, Aḥmad, 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
DS97.6.B83 / S25 2013
956.91/4403092 B
The barber of Damascus : nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant / Dana Sajdi. - Califonia Stanford University Press 2013 - xv, 293 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.
The disorders of a new order : the Levant in the long eighteenth 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 eighteenth century Levantine 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.
9780804785327 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804785325 (cloth : alk. paper)
2013005612
Budayrī, Aḥmad, 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
DS97.6.B83 / S25 2013
956.91/4403092 B