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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition (Hardcover)
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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures
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This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held
assumptions about writing and technological advancement in the
Islamic tradition. In particular, it challenges the idea that
mechanical print naturally and inevitably displaces handwritten
texts as well as the notion that the so-called transition from
manuscript to print is unidirectional. Indeed, rather than distinct
technologies that emerge in a progressive series (one naturally
following the other), they frequently co-exist in complex and
complementary relationships - relationships we are only now
starting to recognize and explore. The book brings together essays
by internationally recognized scholars from an array of disciplines
(including philology, linguistics, religious studies, history,
anthropology, and typography) whose work focuses on the written
word - channeled through various media - as a social and cultural
phenomenon within the Islamic tradition. These essays promote
systematic approaches to the study of Islamic writing cultures writ
large, in an effort to further our understanding of the social,
cultural and intellectual relationships between manuscripts,
printed texts and the people who use and create them.
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