Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition

By Ahmed El Shamsy

Book Overview

Rediscovering the Islamic Classics is the first wide-ranging account of the effects of print and publishing on Islamic scholarship. It tells the fascinating story of how, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Arab editors and intellectuals working in the Middle East put forgotten works of Islamic literature into print and defined what became the classical canon of Islamic thought. Bringing to light the agents and events of the Islamic print revolution, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics is an absorbing examination of the central role printing and its advocates played in the intellectual history of the modern Arab world. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691241910
• ISBN13: 9780691241913
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"