02105nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10746025 CaPaEBR m o u cr cn||||||||| 130214s2013 cauab sb 001 0beng d 2013005612 9780804785327 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804788281 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)859158731 a-sy--- aw----- DS97.6.B83 S25 2013eb 956.91/4403092 B 23 Sajdi, Dana. The barber of Damascus [electronic resource] : nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant / Dana Sajdi. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013. xv, 293 p. : ill., maps. 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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Budayr�i, A�hmad, 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. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10746025 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 33874 33874