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The history of the book in South Asia
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ISBN: 9781409437840 1409437841 9781315239194 9781351888301 Year: 2013 Volume: *2 Publisher: Farnham : Ashgate,

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This title covers not only the various modern states that make up South Asia today but also a multitude of languages and scripts.


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The history of the book in the Middle East
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ISBN: 9781409433101 1409433102 9781315239187 9781351888271 Year: 2013 Volume: *3 Publisher: Burlington : Ashgate,

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This selection of papers by scholarly specialists offers an introduction to the history of the book and book culture in West Asia and North Africa from antiquity to the 20th century. The flourishing and long-lived manuscript tradition is discussed in its various aspects - social and economic as well as technical and aesthetic. The very early but abortive introduction of printing - long before Gutenberg - and the eventual, belated acceptance of the printed book and the development of print culture are explored in further groups of papers. Cultural, aesthetic, technological, religious, social, political and economic factors are all considered throughout the volume. Although the articles reflect the predominance in the area of Muslim books - Arabic, Persian and Turkish - the Hebrew, Syriac and Armenian contributions are also discussed. The editor’s introduction provides a survey of the field from the origins of writing to the modern literary and intellectual revivals.

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