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In the late 18th and first half of the 19th century, print gained a permanent foothold in the Middle East, enabling the mass production of books in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian. Consequently, handwriting gradually ceased to be the primary technology for making books. This contribution, which is published in two parts, examines the metadata of roughly 1,200 Arabic manuscripts that were created between 1820 and 1930 and which are now kept in German libraries. As a first foray into this field of study, it will show what subjects remained popular in manuscript form and which ones were replaced by print. To this end, the evidence gained from the manuscript corpus will be compared to bibliographic data from Egypt, the biggest centre of Arabic printing in the 19th century, to learn where, how, and why the evolving print industry appears to have superseded manuscript culture.
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The Journal of Islamic Manuscripts (JIM) explores the crucial importance of the handwritten book in the Muslim world. It is concerned with the written transmission of knowledge, the numerous varieties of Islamic book culture and the materials and techniques of bookmaking, namely codicology. It also considers activities related to the care and management of Islamic manuscript collections, including cataloguing, conservation and digitization. It is the Journal’s ambition to provide students and scholars, librarians and collectors – in short, everyone who is interested in Islamic manuscripts – with a professional journal and functional platform of their own. It welcomes contributions in English, French and Arabic on codicology, textual studies, manuscript collections and collection care and management. Papers will be peer-reviewed to maintain a high scholarly level. The Journal of Islamic Manuscripts is published on behalf of the Islamic Manuscript Association Limited, an international non-profit organization dedicated to protecting Islamic manuscripts and supporting those who work with them.
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