Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition / / ed. by Scott Reese.

• MitwirkendeR: Adam, Sani Yakubu,; Brigaglia, Andrea,; Dell, Jeremy,; Gori, Alessandro,; Jaber, Mahmoud,; Nemeth, Titus,; Osborn, J.R.,; Reese, Scott,; Schwartz, Kathryn A.,; Stark, Ulrike,; Suit, Natalia K.,; Warnk, Holger,
• HerausgeberIn: Reese, Scott,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures Ser.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 374 p.)

This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about writing and technological advancement in the Islamic tradition. In particular, it challenges the idea that mechanical print naturally and inevitably displaces handwritten texts as well as the notion that the so-call...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I
• Overlooked: The Role of Craft in the Adoption of Typography in the Muslim Middle East
• The Ottoman System of Scripts and the Müteferrika Press
• The Official Urge to Simplify Arabic Printing: Introduction to Nadīm’s 1948 Memo
• Muḥammad Nadīm’s 1948 Memo on Arabic Script Reform: Transcription and Translation
• Part II
• Calligraphic Masterpiece, Mass-Produced Scripture: Early Qur’an Printing in Colonial India
• Cermin Mata (‘The Eyeglass’): A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Missionary Journal from Singapore
• ‘The Ink of Excellence’: Print and the Islamic Written Tradition of East Africa
• Early Ethiopian Islamic Printed Books: A First Assessment with a Special Focus on the Works of shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Annī (d. 1882)
• Printing and Textual Authority in the Twentieth-Century Muridiyya
• ‘Printed Manuscripts’: Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Nigerian Qur’anic Printing
• Technology and Local Tradition: The Making of the Printing Industry in Kano
• Indexes
• Contributors