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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition
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English
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2022
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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.
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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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - Part I
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Overlooked: The Role of Craft in the Adoption of Typography in the Muslim Middle East
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The Ottoman System of Scripts and the Müteferrika Press
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The Official Urge to Simplify Arabic Printing: Introduction to Nadīm’s 1948 Memo
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Muḥammad Nadīm’s 1948 Memo on Arabic Script Reform: Transcription and Translation
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Calligraphic Masterpiece, Mass-Produced Scripture: Early Qur’an Printing in Colonial India
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Cermin Mata (‘The Eyeglass’): A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Missionary Journal from Singapore
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‘The Ink of Excellence’: Print and the Islamic Written Tradition of East Africa
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Early Ethiopian Islamic Printed Books: A First Assessment with a Special Focus on the Works of shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Annī (d. 1882)
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Printing and Textual Authority in the Twentieth-Century Muridiyya
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‘Printed Manuscripts’: Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Nigerian Qur’anic Printing
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Technology and Local Tradition: The Making of the Printing Industry in Kano
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Indexes
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Contributors
373
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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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