Rediscovering the Islamic classics : how editors and print culture transformed an intellectual tradi...
Rediscovering the Islamic classics : how editors and print culture transformed an intellectual tradi...
Rediscovering the Islamic classics : how editors and print culture transformed an intellectual tradition / Ahmed El Shamsy.
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Publisher
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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G 2020/2373 , G 2021/2728
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English
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Physical content
x, 295 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The disappearing books -- Postclassical book culture -- The beginnings of print -- A new generation of book lovers -- The rise of the editor -- Reform through books -- The backlash against postclassicism -- Critique and philology.
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Publisher
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
[2020]
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Summary
"Historians have traced the traditions of Islamic scholarship back to late antiquity. Muslim scholars were at work as early as 750 CE/AD, painstakingly copying their commentaries and legal opinions onto scrolls and codices. This venerable tradition embraced the modern printing press relatively late-movable type was adopted in the Middle East only i...
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Rediscovering the Islamic classics : how editors and print culture transformed an intellectual tradition / Ahmed El Shamsy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/2373 , G 2021/2728
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74VKaPA2XLWy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaPA2XLWy
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ISBN
9780691174563 hardcover
0691174563 hardcover
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070.5096216
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991024314204402626
