Rediscovering the Islamic Classics : How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition /
"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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.