The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices by Konrad Hirschler

The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices

Konrad Hirschler

240 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

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Winner of the 2012 BRISMES book prize. How the written text became accessible to wider audiences in medieval Egypt and Syria. Medieval Islamic societies belonged to the most bookish cultures of their period. Using a wide variety of documentary, na...

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