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Rediscovering the Islamic Classics - How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition (Paperback)
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Rediscovering the Islamic Classics - How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition (Paperback)
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The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literature Islamic book
culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to
write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and
then to compose increasingly elaborate analyses of, and
commentaries on, these ideas. Movable type was adopted in the
Middle East only in the early nineteenth century, and it wasn't
until the second half of the century that the first works of
classical Islamic religious scholarship were printed there. But
from that moment on, Ahmed El Shamsy reveals, the technology of
print transformed Islamic scholarship and Arabic literature. In the
first wide-ranging account of the effects of print and the
publishing industry on Islamic scholarship, El Shamsy tells the
fascinating story of how a small group of editors and intellectuals
brought forgotten works of Islamic literature into print and
defined what became the classical canon of Islamic thought. Through
the lens of the literary culture of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century Arab cities-especially Cairo, a hot spot of the
nascent publishing business-he explores the contributions of these
individuals, who included some of the most important thinkers of
the time. Through their efforts to find and publish classical
literature, El Shamsy shows, many nearly lost works were recovered,
disseminated, and harnessed for agendas of linguistic, ethical, and
religious reform. Bringing to light the agents and events of the
Islamic print revolution, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics is an
absorbing examination of the central role printing and its
advocates played in the intellectual history of the modern Arab
world.
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