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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sajdi, Dana
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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