Rediscovering the Islamic classics : how editors and print culture transformed an intellectual tradition /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: El Shamsy, Ahmed, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Publishers and publishing > Egypt > Cairo > History.
Islamic literature > Publishing > Egypt > Cairo > History.
Editors > Egypt > Cairo > History.
Book collectors > Egypt > Cairo > History.
Littérature islamique > Édition > Égypte > Le Caire > Histoire.
Éditeurs > Égypte > Le Caire > Histoire.
Bibliophiles > Égypte > Le Caire > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies
Book collectors
Editors
Publishers and publishing
Egypt > Cairo
Abd al Hamid Nafi.
Abduh.
Ahmad.
Ali Mubarak.
Ami Ayalon.
Arab Renaissance.
Arabic print revolution.
Arabic publishing.
Arabo Islamic.
Awakening.
Egyptian Scholarly Society.
Faris Shidyaq.
Ibn Taymiyya.
Iraq.
Islamic studies.
Islamism.
Jamal al din al Qasimi.
Levant.
Mahmud Shukri al Alusi.
Nahda.
Orientalism.
Rashid Rida.
Rifa a al Tahtawi.
Tahir al Jaza Iri.
Taymur.
Zaki.
al Husayni.
book history.
canon.
canonical.
manuscript culture.
modern Arab history.
philology.
premodern.
publishing history.
rediscovery.
religious studies.
textual criticism.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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