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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition
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Edited by:
Scott Reese
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2022
About this book
Open Access
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.
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.
Author / Editor information
Scott Reese, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany and Northern Arizona University, USA.
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
September 6, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9783110776485
Hardcover published on:
September 20, 2022
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110776034
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
8
Main content:
374
Illustrations:
7
Coloured Illustrations:
62
Tables:
4
Audience(s) for this book
Linguists, historians, scholars of Islamic, African and South Asian studies, scholars of manusscript and media studies
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
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