The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands
Konrad (Professor of Middle Eastern History, Freie Universitat Berlin) Hirschler
Edinburgh University Press, 2013
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Using a wide variety of documentary, narrative and normative sources, Konrad Hirschler explores the growth of reading audiences in a pre-print culture in Egypt and Syria between the 11th and the 15th centuries. This detailed and wide-ranging analysis of the period, explores the key themes of literacy, orality and aurality.
- ISBN-13
- 9780748677344
- ISBN-10
- 0748677348
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Year
- 2013
- Publication date
- 2013-03-04
- Pages
- 304
- Dimensions
- 234x161x13
- Weight
- 412