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Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition

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Duration: 0:32:43 | Added: 07 Feb 2021
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Duration: 0:32:43 | Added: 07 Feb 2021
Join us for the third MEC Booktalk episode where Dr Usaama al-Azami talks with guest author Ahmed El Shamsy about his new book, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition.

The book can be purchased direct from the publisher's website at a 25% discount until 28/04/21, by quoting DIS21 at check-out:

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174563/rediscovering-...

Ahmed El Shamsy is Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He studies the intellectual history of Islam, focusing on the evolution of the classical Islamic disciplines and scholarly culture within their broader historical context. His research addresses themes such as orality and literacy, the history of the book, and the theory and practice of Islamic law.

Dr Usaama al-Azami is Department Lecturer in Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. His research explores the way in which Islamic scholars, known as the ulama, have responded to modernity, especially in the political realm. He is the author of a forthcoming monograph entitled Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy.

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