TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sajdi,Dana
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The barber of Damascus: nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant 
AV  - DS97.6.B83 S25 2013eb
U1  - 956.91/4403092B 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Budayr�i, A�hmad,
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
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10746025
ER  -