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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Table of Contents:
  • 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.