The barber of Damascus : nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant / Dana Sajdi.
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TextPublication details: Califonia Stanford University Press 2013Description: xv, 293 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780804785327 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804785325 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Budayrī, Aḥmad, 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 -- Historiography
- 956.91/4403092 B 23
- DS97.6.B83 S25 2013
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Monograph ( Printed materials)
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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.
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