Historical aspects of printing and publishing in languages of the Middle East : : papers from the symposium at the University of Leipzig, September 2008 / / edited by Roper, Geoffrey.

• Superior document: Islamic Manuscripts and Books, Volume 4
• Author: Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East
• TeilnehmendeR: Roper, Geoffrey.; Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic manuscripts and books ; v. 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Notes: "This volume contains revised and edited versions of papers presented at the Third International Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East, held at the University of Leipzig, 24-27 September 2008, in conjunction with the 24th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI) and in cooperation with the Oriental Institute, University of Leipzig"--Preface.

Print culture, in both its material and cognitive aspects, has been a somewhat neglected field of Middle Eastern intellectual and social history. The essays in this volume aim to make significant contributions to remedying this neglect, by advancing our knowledge and understanding of how and why the development of printing both affected, and was affected by, historical, social and intellectual currents in the areas considered. These range geographically from Iran to Latin America, via Kurdistan, Turkey, Egypt, the Maghrib and Germany, temporally from the 10th to the 20th centuries CE, and linguistically through Arabic, Judæo-Arabic, Syriac, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish and Persian.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Mediæval Arabic Block Printing: State of the Field / Karl Schaefer -- Früher Druck mit arabischen Typen in Leipzig, 17.–18. Jahrhundert / Boris Liebrenz -- Enlightenment in the Ottoman Context: İbrahim Müteferrika and His Intellectual Landscape / Vefa Erginbaş -- Waiting for Godot: The Formation of Ottoman Print Culture / Orlin Sabev -- Printing and the Abuse of Texts in al-Ǧabartī’s History of Egypt / Sarah Mirza -- Judæo-Arabic Printing in North Africa, 1850–1950 / Yosef Tobi -- Marginal Miniatures: The Tehran Edition of al-Damīrī’s Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān (1285/1868) / Ulrich Marzolph -- The Establishment of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate Press / Ahmet Taşğın and Robert Langer -- L’Imprimerie Ebüzziya et l’art d’imprimer dans l’Empire ottoman à la fin du XIXe siècle / Özgür Türesay -- A Champion of Printing Quality in the Ottoman Turkish Press of the Second Constitutional Period: Şehbal Journal / Bora Ataman and Cem Pekman -- Arabic and Bilingual Newspapers and Magazines in Latin America and the Caribbean / Philipp Bruckmayr -- A Short History of Kurdish Publishing and Prospects for its Future / Blair Kuntz -- The Bulaq Press Museum at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina / Ahmed Mansour -- Index.