Printing Arab modernity : book culture and the American Press in nineteenth-century Beirut /

During the nineteenth century, the American Mission Press in Beirut printed religious and secular publications written by foreign missionaries and Syrian scholars such as Nāṣīf al-Yāzijī and Buṭrus al-Bustānī, of later nahḍa fame. In a region where presses were still not prevalent, letterpress-print...

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Main Author: Auji, Hala.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2016.

Series: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World 7.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303935.

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American Mission Press (Syria) > History > 19th century.

Publishers and publishing > Lebanon > Beirut > History > 19th century.

Arabic imprints > Lebanon > Beirut > History > 19th century.

Printing, Arabic > Lebanon > Beirut > History > 19th century.