The barber of Damascus nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant

The barber of Damascus : nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant / Dana Sajdi.

Author/creator	Sajdi, Dana
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
Description	xv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	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.

Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2013005612
ISBN	9780804785327 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0804785325 (cloth : alk. paper)

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