Historical Aspects of Printing and Publishing in Languages of the Middle East (Islamic Manuscripts and Books, 4) - Hardcover

Geoffrey Roper

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004255052 ISBN 13: 9789004255050

Publisher: BRILL, 2013

Synopsis

Print culture, in both its material and cognitive aspects, has been a somewhat neglected field of Middle Eastern intellectual and social history. The essays in this volume aim to make significant contributions to remedying this neglect, by advancing our knowledge and understanding of how and why the development of printing both affected, and was affected by, historical, social and intellectual currents in the areas considered. These range geographically from Iran to Latin America, via Kurdistan, Turkey, Egypt, the Maghrib and Germany, temporally from the 10th to the 20th centuries CE, and linguistically through Arabic, Judæo-Arabic, Syriac, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish and Persian.

About this title

About the Author:

Geoffrey Roper was head of the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library, and has written and lectured extensively on Middle Eastern printing and publishing history. He was an Associate Editor of the Oxford Companion to the Book (2010).

Review:

"...scientifically elaborate and richly illustrated volume."
Nikos Nikoloudis in Journal of Oriental and African Studies 24 (2015) 471-474.

About this edition

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 9004255052
• ISBN 13: 9789004255050
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320