The Barber of Damascus:
Dana Sajdi
The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant - xv, 293 p., ill.; 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
Shibab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr
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
The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant - xv, 293 p., ill.; 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
Shibab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr
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