The book in the Islamic world : the written word and communication in the Middle East / edited by George N. Atiyeh.
Material type: TextPublication details: [Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress, ©1995.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 305 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585045828
- 9780585045825
- Books -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses
- Middle East -- Intellectual life -- Congresses
- Manuscripts -- Islamic countries -- Congresses
- Printing -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses
- Manuscrits -- Pays musulmans -- Congrès
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing
- Books
- Intellectual life
- Manuscripts
- Printing
- Islamic countries
- Middle East
- Boekwezen
- Handschriften
- Arabische wereld
- 002/.0956 20
- Z8.M63 B66 1995eb
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Consists of papers presented at a conference held November 8-9, 1990 at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-281) and index.
From the manuscript age to the age of printed books / Muhsin Mahdi -- The Koranic text : from revelation to compilation / Jacques Berque -- "Of making many books there is no end" : the classical Muslim view / Franz Rosenthal -- Oral transmission and the book in Islamic education / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- The book of life-metaphors connected with the book in Islamic literatures / Annemarie Schimmel -- Biographical dictionaries : inner structure and cultural significance / Wadād al-Qāḍī -- The book in the grammatical tradition : development in content and methods / Ranzi Baalbaki -- Women's roles in the art of Arabic calligraphy / Salāh al-Dīn al-Munajjid -- Some illustrations in Islamic scientific manuscripts and their secrets / David A. King -- A royal manuscript and its transformation : the life history of a book / Priscilla P. Soucek and Filiz Çağman -- Fāris Al-Shidyāq and the transition from scribal to print culture in the Middle East / Geoffrey Roper -- The book in the modern Arab world : the cases of Lebanon and Egypt / George N. Atiyeh -- Mass higher education and the religious imagination in contemporary Arab societies / Dale F. Eickelman -- The book in the Islamic world : a selective bibliography / Michael W. Albin.
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