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The barber of Damascus: nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant

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Field name	Details
ISBN	0804785325 (hbk.)
ISBN	9780804785327 (hbk.)
Author	Sajdi, Dana
Title	The barber of Damascus : nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant / Dana Sajdi
Publisher	Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2013
Physical desc.	xv, 293 p. ; ill., map ; 24 cm.
Note	CBL illustrations: p. [169], fig. 8 (Ar 3551, f. 24b); p. 171, fig. 9 (Ar 3551, f. 81b).
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-280) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- 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.
Person as subject	Budayrī, Aḥmad -- active 18th century
Subject	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 3551
	Literature and society -- Middle East -- History -- 18th century
	Arabic prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
	Barbers -- Syria -- Damascus -- Biography
	Middle East -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
	Middle East -- History -- 18th century -- Historiography

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