Historical aspects of printing and publishing in languages of the Middle East : papers from the symposium at the University of Leipzig, September 2008 / edited by Roper, Geoffrey.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Roper, Geoffrey.

Conference Name:

Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East (3rd : 2008 : Universität Leipzig)

Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East.

Series:

Islamic manuscripts and books ; v. 4.

Islamic Manuscripts and Books, 1877-9964 ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing--Middle East--History--Congresses.

Printing.

Publishers and publishing--Middle East--History--Congresses.

Publishers and publishing.

Printing, Arabic--History--Congresses.

Printing, Arabic.

Middle Eastern literature--Publishing--History--Congresses.

Middle Eastern literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Print culture, in both its material and cognitive aspects, has been a somewhat neglected field of Middle Eastern intellectual and social history. The essays in this volume aim to make significant contributions to remedying this neglect, by advancing our knowledge and understanding of how and why the development of printing both affected, and was affected by, historical, social and intellectual currents in the areas considered. These range geographically from Iran to Latin America, via Kurdistan, Turkey, Egypt, the Maghrib and Germany, temporally from the 10th to the 20th centuries CE, and linguistically through Arabic, Judæo-Arabic, Syriac, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish and Persian.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Mediæval Arabic Block Printing: State of the Field / Karl Schaefer

Früher Druck mit arabischen Typen in Leipzig, 17.–18. Jahrhundert / Boris Liebrenz

Enlightenment in the Ottoman Context: İbrahim Müteferrika and His Intellectual Landscape / Vefa Erginbaş

Waiting for Godot: The Formation of Ottoman Print Culture / Orlin Sabev

Printing and the Abuse of Texts in al-Ǧabartī’s History of Egypt / Sarah Mirza

Judæo-Arabic Printing in North Africa, 1850–1950 / Yosef Tobi

Marginal Miniatures: The Tehran Edition of al-Damīrī’s Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān (1285/1868) / Ulrich Marzolph

The Establishment of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate Press / Ahmet Taşğın and Robert Langer

L’Imprimerie Ebüzziya et l’art d’imprimer dans l’Empire ottoman à la fin du XIXe siècle / Özgür Türesay

A Champion of Printing Quality in the Ottoman Turkish Press of the Second Constitutional Period: Şehbal Journal / Bora Ataman and Cem Pekman

Arabic and Bilingual Newspapers and Magazines in Latin America and the Caribbean / Philipp Bruckmayr

A Short History of Kurdish Publishing and Prospects for its Future / Blair Kuntz

The Bulaq Press Museum at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina / Ahmed Mansour

Index.

Notes:

"This volume contains revised and edited versions of papers presented at the Third International Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East, held at the University of Leipzig, 24-27 September 2008, in conjunction with the 24th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI) and in cooperation with the Oriental Institute, University of Leipzig"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource : title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 3, 2014).

ISBN:

90-04-25597-4

OCLC:

865656964

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004255975 DOI