Ahmed El Shamsy

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionised 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. Movable type was adopted in the Middle East...

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionised 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. Movable type was adopted in the Middle East...