The book in the Islamic world : the written word and communication in the Middle East / edited by Ge...
The book in the Islamic world : the written word and communication in the Middle East / edited by Ge...
The book in the Islamic world : the written word and communication in the Middle East / edited by George N. Atiyeh.
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Albany : State University of New York Press ; [Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress, c1995.
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T0370485
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English
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Physical content
xviii, 305 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. From the Manuscript Age to the Age of Printed Books / Muhsin Mahdi -- 2. The Koranic Text: From Revelation to Compilation / Jacques Berque -- 3. "Of Making Many Books There Is No End": The Classical Muslim View / Franz Rosenthal -- 4. Oral Transmission and the Book in Islamic Education / Seyyed H...
11. Faris Al-Shidyaq and the Transition from Scribal to Print Culture in the Middle East / Geoffrey Roper -- 12. The Book in the Modern Arab World: The Cases of Lebanon and Egypt / George N. Atiyeh -- 13. Mass Higher Education and the Religious Imagination in Contemporary Arab Societies / Dale F. Ei...
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Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press ; [Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress, c1995.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1995.
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The book in the Islamic world : the written word and communication in the Middle East / edited by George N. Atiyeh.
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Consists of papers presented at a conference held November 8-9, 1990 at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-281) and index.
Transferred from N002.0956/1.
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c1995.
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T0370485
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74VMeeOGq7pZ
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ISBN
079142474X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780791424735 (alk. paper)
0791424731 (alk. paper)
DDC
002.0956
MMS ID
991003181279702626
