Parution : Scott Reese, Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition, De Gruyter, 2022
Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition
Edited by: Scott Reese
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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.
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Scott Reese, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
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