Rediscovering the Islamic Classics : : How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition / / Ahmed El Shamsy.
The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and then to compose increasingly elaborate...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 27 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Disappearing Books
- Chapter 2. Postclassical Book Culture
- Chapter 3. The Beginnings of Print
- Chapter 4. A New Generation of Book Lovers
- Chapter 5. The Rise of the Editor
- Chapter 6. Reform through Books
- Chapter 7. The Backlash against Postclassicism
- Chapter 8. Critique and Philology
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index