The History of the Book in the Middle East

This selection of papers by scholarly specialists offers an introduction to the history of the book and book culture in West Asia and North Africa from antiquity to the 20th century. The cultural, aesthetic, technological, religious, social, political and economic factors of the historical developments are considered throughout, and the articles discuss not only the Arabic, Persian and Turkish books of the Muslim tradition, but also the Hebrew, Syriac and Armenian contributions.