TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dana Sajdi
TI  - The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant
SN  - 9780804785327
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Stanford
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Shibab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr
KW  - Barbers
KW  - Syria
KW  - Damascus
KW  - Biography
KW  - Arabic prose literature
KW  - 18th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Middle East
KW  - History
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Historiography
N1  - 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
ER  -