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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sajdi, Dana (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
Subjects:	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.

Table of Contents:

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.