‘The Ink of Excellence’: Print and the Islamic Written Tradition of East Africa

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I
5. Overlooked: The Role of Craft in the Adoption of Typography in the Muslim Middle East 21
6. The Ottoman System of Scripts and the Müteferrika Press 61
7. The Official Urge to Simplify Arabic Printing: Introduction to Nadīm’s 1948 Memo 89
8. Muḥammad Nadīm’s 1948 Memo on Arabic Script Reform: Transcription and Translation 97
9. Part II
10. Calligraphic Masterpiece, Mass-Produced Scripture: Early Qur’an Printing in Colonial India 141
11. Cermin Mata (‘The Eyeglass’): A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Missionary Journal from Singapore 181
12. ‘The Ink of Excellence’: Print and the Islamic Written Tradition of East Africa 217
13. Early Ethiopian Islamic Printed Books: A First Assessment with a Special Focus on the Works of shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Annī (d. 1882) 243
14. Printing and Textual Authority in the Twentieth-Century Muridiyya 271
15. ‘Printed Manuscripts’: Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Nigerian Qur’anic Printing 289
16. Technology and Local Tradition: The Making of the Printing Industry in Kano 337
17. Indexes 357
18. Contributors 373