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The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands :

(Number (ISBN

0748654216

(Number (ISBN

9780748654215

Erroneous ISBN

0748642560

Erroneous ISBN

9780748642564

Country Code

bnb

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bc1010627

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Title Proper

The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices /

First Statement of Responsibility

Konrad Hirschler.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Edinburgh :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Edinburgh University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2012.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (vi, 234 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations (chiefly color)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-227) and index.

Text of Note

Reading and writerly culture -- A city is reading : popular and scholarly reading sessions -- Learning to read : popularisation and the written word in children's schools -- Local endowed libraries and their readers -- Popular reading practices.

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Text of Note

The Middle East was one of the most literate civilizations during the high and late medieval period and home to bustling book markets, voluminous libraries and sophisticated book production. After the 'paper revolution' of the 9th and 10th centuries the number of books and the availability of the written word increased dramatically. In the scholarly world the written word played an increasingly prominent role and reading was taken up by wider sections of the population. This book discusses the history of reading in the high and late medieval period in the Middle East in depth. It offers a detailed and wide-ranging analysis of the period, exploring the key themes of literacy/orality/aurality, the teaching of reading skills in schools, and the accessibility and profile of libraries, as well as popular reading practices, often associated with the notion of the illicit. This much-needed overview of the history of reading places the emphasis on the combination of cultural and social history and provides a depth of historical insight to the gradual development of reading practices over the centuries. On the basis of documentary sources and medieval illustrations the book shows in what ways new groups in the Arabic speaking lands, especially craftsmen and traders, started to read and to participate in the written culture between the 12th and the 15th centuries. With this book the late and high medieval periods of Middle Eastern history are finally brought into the burgeoning field of the history of reading.--provided by publisher.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctv2f3bsbv

Title

Written word in the medieval Arabic lands.

International Standard Book Number

9780748642564

Books and reading-- Arab countries-- History-- To 1500.

Written communication-- Arab countries-- History-- To 1500.

Arabländerna.

Böcker och läsning-- historia.

Books and reading.

Buch.

HISTORY / Middle East / General

Lesekultur

Lesen.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Books & Reading.

Schriftliche Kommunikation

Written communication.

Arab countries.

Arabische Staaten

Arabische Staaten.

7

7

7

HIS-- 026000

LIT-- 007000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Class number

System Code

System Code

Hirschler, Konrad

Date of Transaction

20220822083114.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

270410

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