This is a review of a dense and rich book in which the author, Konrad Hirschler, explores the transformation of reading practices and the spread of the written word in the so-called Islamic Middle Period (10th-early 16th centuries). This study focuses in particular on the lands of Egypt and Syria and their main urban centers, Cairo and Damascus, but also Aleppo.
Konrad Hirschler, The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands. A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), 201 pp. + Bibliography and Index, in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi n.s. 9 (2014), 339-40.
BORI, CATERINA
2014
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This is a review of a dense and rich book in which the author, Konrad Hirschler, explores the transformation of reading practices and the spread of the written word in the so-called Islamic Middle Period (10th-early 16th centuries). This study focuses in particular on the lands of Egypt and Syria and their main urban centers, Cairo and Damascus, but also Aleppo.File in questo prodotto:
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