Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition / Edited by Scott Steven Reese.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reese, Scott Steven, editor.

Series:

Studies in manuscript cultures.

Studies in manuscript cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 374 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2022.

Summary:

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.00The 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.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (de gruyter, viewed May 09, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.