Qurʼanic matters : material mediations and religious practice in Egypt / Natalia K. Suit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suit, Natalia K., author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion.

Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Qurʼan.

Qurʼan. Muṣḥaf al-murattal.

Islam--Study and teaching--Egypt.

Islam.

Egypt--Religion.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomscury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"In Qurʼanic Matters, Natalia Suit explores the materiality of books, focusing on the mushaf. With its paper, binding, ink, and script, the mushaf is not simply a carrier of the Qur'anic text but, by the virtue of its material body, it also has the ability to engender reformulations of religious knowledge and practice. Reading the Qurʼan on a screen of a phone, for example, does not require the same forms of ritual ablutions as reading a printed text. The rules of purity limiting the access to the Qurʼanic text for menstruating woman change when the Qur'anic text is mediated by digital bytes instead of paper. Qurʼanic Matters spans the time between two important technological shifts-the introduction of printed Qurʼanic books in Egypt in the early nineteenth century and the digitization of the Qurʼan almost two centuries later. Throughout, Natalia Suit weaves together the theological, legal, economic, and social 'presences' of the Qurʼanic books into a single account. She argues that the message and the materiality of the object are not separate from each other, nor are they separate from the human bodies with which they come in contact."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface Introduction Part I: The Makers

1. The Beginning(s)

2. Pens, Letters, and the Politics of Correctness

3. Qur'anic Icons

Part II: The Custodians

4. Debating Defects

5. The (Ortho)Graphic Blueprint

6. What the Eyes Can't See but the Hands Can Touch: Mushaf in Braille

Part III: The Users

7. How Printing Created Manuscripts

8. Uses and Abuses

9. Enacting the Electronic Qur'an Conclusion

Index

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350121416

135012141X

9781350121409

1350121401

OCLC:

1145549921