Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition

book: Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition

Edited by: Scott Reese

Volume 26 in the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110776485

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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.
The 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.

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Scott Reese, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany and Northern Arizona University, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Scott Reese Open Access Download PDF	1
Part I
Overlooked: The Role of Craft in the Adoption of Typography in the Muslim Middle East Titus Nemeth Open Access Download PDF	21
The Ottoman System of Scripts and the Müteferrika Press J.R. Osborn Open Access Download PDF	61
The Official Urge to Simplify Arabic Printing: Introduction to Nadīm’s 1948 Memo Kathryn A. Schwartz Open Access Download PDF	89
Muḥammad Nadīm’s 1948 Memo on Arabic Script Reform: Transcription and Translation Mahmoud Jaber, J.R. Osborn, Kathryn A. Schwartz and Natalia K. Suit Open Access Download PDF	97
Part II
Calligraphic Masterpiece, Mass-Produced Scripture: Early Qur’an Printing in Colonial India Ulrike Stark Open Access Download PDF	141
Cermin Mata (‘The Eyeglass’): A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Missionary Journal from Singapore Holger Warnk Open Access Download PDF	181
‘The Ink of Excellence’: Print and the Islamic Written Tradition of East Africa Scott Reese Open Access Download PDF	217
Early Ethiopian Islamic Printed Books: A First Assessment with a Special Focus on the Works of shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Annī (d. 1882) Alessandro Gori Open Access Download PDF	243
Printing and Textual Authority in the Twentieth-Century Muridiyya Jeremy Dell Open Access Download PDF	271
‘Printed Manuscripts’: Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Nigerian Qur’anic Printing Andrea Brigaglia Open Access Download PDF	289
Technology and Local Tradition: The Making of the Printing Industry in Kano Sani Yakubu Adam Open Access Download PDF	337
Indexes Open Access Download PDF	357
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	373

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Linguists, historians, scholars of Islamic, African and South Asian studies, scholars of manusscript and media studies
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 374
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 7
- Coloured Illustrations: 62
- Tables: 4
Keywords: Islamic literature; manuscript; manuscript studies; book history

eBook

Published: September 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110776485

Hardcover

Published: September 20, 2022
ISBN: 9783110776034