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The history of the book in the Middle East

The history of the book in the Middle East
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ISBN 1409433102 (hbk.)
9781409433101 (hbk.)
Title The history of the book in the Middle East / edited by Geoffrey Roper
Publisher Farnham, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2013
Physical desc. xxvii, 580 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 26 cm.
Series History of the book in the East [3]
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Part 1: General and introductory. Islamic book history: parameters of a discipline / Michael W. Albin -- ‘Of making many books there is no end’: the classical Muslim view / Franz Rosenthal -- Part 2: Manuscripts. The script and book craft in the Hebrew medieval codex / Malachai Beit-Arié -- Between the lines: realities of scribal life in the 16th century / Cornell H. Fleischer -- Early Islamic bookbindings and their Coptic relations / Theodore C. Petersen -- The human element between text and reader: the ijaza in Arabic manuscripts / Jan Just Witkam -- Technical practices and recommendations recorded by classical and post-classical Arabic scholars concerning the copying and correction of manuscripts / Adam Gacek -- The copyists’ working pace: some remarks towards a reflexion on the economy of the book in the Islamic world / François Déroche -- Part 3: Introduction of printing. From the manuscript age to the age of printed books / Muhsin Mahdi -- A virgin deserving Paradise or a whore deserving poison: manuscript tradition and printed books in Ottoman Turkish society / Orlin Sabev (Orhan Salih) -- Mass-producing Houri’s moles: or aesthetics and choice of technology in early Muslim book printing / Ian Proudfoot -- Medieval Arabic tarsh: a forgotten chapter in the history of printing / Richard W. Bulliet -- Islamic reformist discourse in the Tulip period (1718-30): Ibrahim Müteferriqa and his arguments for printing / Stefan Reichmuth -- The beginnings of Hebrew printing in Egypt / Diana Rowland-Smith -- Part 4: Printing development and print culture: Hebrew printing houses in the Ottoman Empire / Yaron Ben Na’eh -- Arab booksellers and bookshops in the age of printing, 1850-1914 / Ami Ayalon -- On the question of lithography / Brinkley Messick -- Rich men, poor men: Ottoman printers and booksellers making fortune or seeking survival (eighteenth-nineteenth centuries) / Orlin Sabev (Orhan Salih) -- Functional perspectives on technology: the case of the printing press in the Ottoman Empire / J.S. Szyliowicz -- The birth of tradition and modernity in 18th and 19th-century Islamic culture - the case of printing / Reinhard Schulze -- The printing press and change in the Arab world / Geoffrey Roper -- Islam and the art of printing / H.A. Avakian -- Mass culture and Islamic cultural production in 19th-century Middle East / Reinhard Schulze -- Who read what in the Ottoman empire (19th-20th centuries)? / Johann Strauss -- The beginnings of publishing in pre-1948 Palestine / Ami Ayalon -- Mesrop’s heirs: the early Armenian book printers / Meliné Pehlivanian -- Edward Breath and the typography of Syriac / J.F. Coakley.
Subject Books -- Middle East -- History
Printing -- Middle East -- History
Manuscripts, Arabic -- History
Manuscripts, Persian -- History
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