Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-30999-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 605 mm x 264 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Arts and Archaeology of the Is

During the nineteenth century, the American Mission Press in Beirut printed religious and secular publications written by foreign missionaries and Syrian scholars such as Nasif al-Yaziji and Butrus al-Bustani, of later nahda fame. In a region where presses were still not prevalent, letterpress-printed and lithographed works circulated within a larger network that was dominated by manuscript production. In this book, Hala Auji analyzes the American Press publications as important visual and material objects that provide unique insights into an era of changing societal concerns and shifting intellectual attitudes of Syria’s Muslim and Christian populations. Contending that printed books are worthy of close visual scrutiny, this study highlights an important place for print culture during a time of an emerging Arab modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Auji, Hala

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Islamische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Druck und Drucken
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Hala Auji, Ph.D. (2013), State University of New York at Binghamton, is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art at the American University of Beirut.