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.
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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