The classical discovery of modern (book) history Rediscovering the Islamic classics: how editors and print culture transformed an intellectual tradition , by Ahmed El Shamsy, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2020, 312 pp., £40.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780691174563

2024/06/28 by Ádám Mestyán · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Islamic Studies and History #Education and Islamic Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/1475262x.2024.2362491

openalex publication_date 2024/06/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15

Abstract

Ahmed El Shamsy has published an interesting monograph entitled Rediscovering the Islamic Classics—How Editors and Print Culture Transformed An Intellectual Tradition. El Shamsy, a scholar of medie...

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• Adam Mestyan reviews Ahmed El Shamsy's _Rediscovering the Islamic classics: how editors and print culture transformed an intellectual tradition_ doi.org/10.1080/1475... [bsky, 2 points, 1 comments]

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