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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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Auteur principal: El Shamsy, Ahmed, 1976- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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.