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Back to EpisodesAhmed El-Shamsy, “Rediscovering the Islamic Classics” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Published 5 years, 10 months ago
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Ahmed El-Shamsy’s Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition (Princeton University Press, 2020) is an astonishing scholarly feat that presents a detailed, sophisticated, and thoroughly enjoyable intellectual and social history of the modern publishing industry on what we today consider canonical books of Islamic...