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

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.
Beirut (Lebanon) > Intellectual life > 19th century.

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Call Number: Z464.L4386 B452 2016

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-149) and index. 
505 0 0 |a Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The American Press and Its Legacy -- Evangelizing between Script and Print (1834-1840) -- Print for Shifting Alliances and Readers (1841-1851) -- Protestant Ideals and Arab Intellectual Ambitions (1852-1867) -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Annual Number of Arabic Publications from the American Press, 1836-1867 -- Appendix 2: List of Arabic Publications Produced at the American Press, 1836-1867 -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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520 |a 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-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. 
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