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...James Grehan Sajdi Dana . The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant . ( Stanford : Stanford Univ. , 2013 ). Pp. xv + 293 . $60 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Review Essay The World...

... of coherence, Noureddin reflects again, at more length, on his adopted country: My lords and gentlemen, clergymen, lawyers, merchants, and all you other respectable bodies of men in England—I beg your pardon—I am only a foreigner, a man of Damascus ; God help me, I had not the honour to be born in England...

... Sajdi, Dana. The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant (Stanford: Stanford Univ., 2013). Pp. xv + 293. $60 Schmid, Susanne. British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Pp. xi...

... city, a ruine: a palace of strangers, to be no citie, it shall neuer be built”; Isaiah 17:1: “Damascus is taken away from being a citie, and it shalbe a ruinous heape”; and Isaiah 64:10: “Thy holy cities are a wildernesse, Zion is a wildernesse, Ierusalem a desolation.” 10. Cynthia Wall...

.... Zenobia visits, among other sites, Damascus, Mount Lebanon, Naza- reth, Mouth Tabor, Samaria, Shiloh, Joppa, Idumea, the Red Sea, Bethle- hem, and Mount Calvary. Jewish Conversion Novel, and the Limits of Rational Education     4 1 What does it mean that the exact same techniques can be used...