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The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literature Islamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and then to compose increasingly elaborate analyses of, and commentaries on, these ideas.

Author Biography:

Ahmed El Shamsy is associate professor of Islamic thought at the University of Chicago and the author of The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History.
Release date Australia
February 11th, 2020
Pages
312
Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
27 b/w illus.
ISBN-13
9780691174563
Product ID
31431533

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