The barber of Damascus [electronic resource] : nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant / Dana Sajdi.
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- 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
- 956.91/4403092 B 23
- DS97.6.B83 S25 2013
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Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.