The Barber of Damascus : Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant /

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This book is about a barber, Shihab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr, who shaved and coiffed, and probably circumcised and healed, in Damascus in the 18th century. The barber may have been a "nobody," but he wrote a history book, a record of the events that took place in his city during his lifetim...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sajdi, Dana (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Arabic prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Barbers > Syria > Damascus > Biography.
Literature and society > Middle East > History > 18th century.
Barber.
Damascus.
Muḥammad Sa`īd al-Qāsimī.
Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn Budayr.
al-Nahḍa (Arab Renaissance).
contemporary chronicle.
microhistory.
nouveau literacy.
HISTORY / Middle East / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations and Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Language and Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Disorders of a New Order: The Levant in the Long Eighteenth Century
  • 2. A Barber at the Gate: A Social and Intellectual Biography
  • 3. "Cheap" Monumentality: The Nouveau Literates and Their Texts
  • 4. Authority and History: The Genealogy of the Eighteenth-Century Levantine Contemporary Chronicle
  • 5. A Room of His Own: The "History" of the Barber of Damascus
  • 6. Cutting the Barber's Tale: The Afterlives of a History
  • Conclusion: From Nouveau Literacy to Print Journalism
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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