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

Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn Budayr shaved and coiffed, and probably circumcised and healed, in Damascus in the eighteenth century. The barber wrote a history book, a chronicle of the events that took place in his city during his lifetime. Examining the 'life and work' of Ibn Budayr, the boo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sajdi, Dana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.