The barber of Damascus [electronic resource] : nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant / Dana Sajdi.
By: Sajdi, Dana.
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BookPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013Description: xv, 293 p. : ill., maps.Subject(s): Budayr�i, A�hmad, 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 -- HistoriographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 956.91/4403092 | B Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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