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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

 

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