The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant
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TextPublisher: Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013Description: xv, 293 p., ill.; 24 cmISBN: - 9780804785327
- Shibab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr
- 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
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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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