Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition, Hardcover - Ahmed El Shamsy

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back...

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This is a new, revised edition of the universally acclaimed and best-selling account of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement - the most radi...

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