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Wordtrade.com| 1202 Raleigh Road 115| Chapel Hill NC 27517| USA SPOTLIGHT ph 9195425719| fx 9198691643| www.wordtrade.com 071 Wordtrade Reviews: Re-Making the Heart of Empire Table of Contents RE-MAKING THE WORLD: CHRISTIANITY AND CATEGORIES: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF KAREN L. KING edited by Taylor G. Petrey, Carly Daniel-Hughes, Benjamin H. Dunning, Anne-Marie Luijendijk, Laura S. Nasrallah [Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament, Mohr Siebrek, 9783161565816] REDISCOVERING THE ISLAMIC CLASSICS: HOW EDITORS AND PRINT CULTURE TRANSFORMED AN INTELLECTUAL TRADITION by Ahmed El Shamsy [Princeton University Press, 9780691174563] SAINTHOOD AND AUTHORITY IN EARLY ISLAM: AL-ḤAKĪM AL-TIRMIDHĪ’S THEORY OF WILĀYA AND THE REENVISIONING OF THE SUNNĪ CALIPHATE by Aiyub Palmer [Studies on Sufism, Brill, Hardback: 9789004408302; E-Book: 9789004416550] ESOTERIC IMAGES: DECODING THE LATE HERAT SCHOOL OF PAINTING by Tawfiq Daʿadli [Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, Brill, Hardback: 9789004398009; E-Book: 9789004398412] THE SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION OF JEWS WHO BECOME ORTHODOX by Roberta G. Sands [State University of New York Press, SUNY, 9781438474281] RELIGIOUS DISSENT IN LATE ANTIQUITY, 350-450 by Maijastina Kahlos [Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity, Oxford University Press, 9780190067250] CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: FULL TEXT AND THEOLOGICAL COMMENTARY, Direction and Coordination of the Theological Commentary by Rino Fisichella [Our Sunday Visitor, 9781681922744] READY OR NOT: PREPARING OUR KIDS TO THRIVE IN AN UNCERTAIN AND RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD by Madeline Levine, PhD [Harper, 9780062657756] START HERE: A PARENT'S GUIDE TO HELPING CHILDREN AND TEENS THROUGH MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES by Pier Bryden, MD, and Peter Szatmari, MD [Simon & Schuster, 9781982144586] THE ECOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD: HOW OUR CHANGING WORLD THREATENS CHILDREN'S RIGHTS by Barbara Bennett Woodhouse [Families, Law, and Society, NYU Press, 9780814794845] WHITE KIDS: GROWING UP WITH PRIVILEGE IN A RACIALLY DIVIDED AMERICA by Margaret A. Hagerman [Critical Perspectives on Youth, NYU Press, 9781479803682] BECOMING A MAN: THE STORY OF A TRANSITION by P. Carl [Simon & Schuster, 9781982105099] INVISIBLE AMERICANS: THE TRAGIC COST OF CHILD POVERTY by Jeff Madrick [Knopf, 9780451494184] EU TRADE LAW by Rafael Leal-Arcas [Elgar European Law, Edward Elgar Publishers, 9781788977401] 1 | p age spotlight|© authors|or|wordtrade.com wordtrade.com| spotlight RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON EU ECONOMIC LAW edited by Federico Fabbrini and Marco Ventoruzzo [Research Handbooks in European Law, Edward Elgar Pubishers, 9781788972338] SHAKESPEARE, OBJECTS AND PHENOMENOLOGY: DAGGERS OF THE MIND by Susan Sachon [Palgrave Shakespeare Studies, Palgrave Macmillan, 9783030052065] THE MORAL ARGUMENT: A HISTORY by David Baggett and Jerry Walls [Oxford University Press, 9780190246365] THE LONGING FOR LESS LIVING WITH MINIMALISM by Kyle Chayka [Bloomsbury Publishing, 9781635572100] NOTHINGNESS IN THE HEART OF EMPIRE: THE MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE KYOTO SCHOOL IN IMPERIAL JAPAN by Harumi Osaki [SUNY Press, 9781438473093] Bibliography Editorial Appraisals: Some qualified reviewers offer their own brief evaluation of the book. Otherwise most of our content represents the authors’-editors’ own words as a preview to their approach to the subject, their style and point-of-view. <> REDISCOVERING THE ISLAMIC CLASSICS: HOW EDITORS AND PRINT CULTURE TRANSFORMED AN INTELLECTUAL TRADITION by Ahmed El Shamsy [Princeton University Press, 9780691174563] The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literature Islamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and then to compose increasingly elaborate analyses of, and commentaries on, these ideas. Movable type was adopted in the Middle East only in the early nineteenth century, and it wasn't until the second half of the century that the first works of classical Islamic religious scholarship were printed there. But from that moment on, Ahmed El Shamsy reveals, the technology of print transformed Islamic scholarship and Arabic literature. In the first wide-ranging account of the effects of print and the publishing industry on Islamic scholarship, El Shamsy tells the fascinating story of how a small group of editors and intellectuals brought forgotten works of Islamic literature into print and defined what became the classical canon of Islamic thought. Through the lens of the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Arab cities―especially Cairo, a hot spot of the nascent publishing business―he explores the contributions of these individuals, who included some of the most important thinkers of the time. Through their efforts to find and publish classical literature, El Shamsy shows, many nearly lost works were recovered, disseminated, and harnessed for agendas of linguistic, ethical, and religious reform. 2 | Page s potlight|©authors|or|wordtrade.com wordtrade.com| spotlight Bringing to light the agents and events of the Islamic print revolution, REDISCOVERING THE ISLAMIC CLASSICS is an absorbing examination of the central role printing and its advocates played in the intellectual history of the modern Arab world. Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction CHAPTER 1 The Disappearing Books The Book Drain to Europe The Decline of Traditional Libraries The Emergence of Modern Libraries CHAPTER 2 Postclassical Book Culture Scholasticism: Only Postclassical Books Matter Esotericism: The Falling Prestige of Book Learning Countercurrents: Pushing back against Scholasticism and Esotericism CHAPTER 3 The Beginnings of Print Early Printing in the Arabic World: Limited Horizons The Evolution of the Publishing Industry: Expanding Possibilities How Printing Worked: The Role of the Corrector CHAPTER 4 A New Generation of Book Lovers The Egyptian Scholarly Society `Abd al-Hamid Nafi' and the Race for Manuscripts Ahmad Taymūr: New Intellectual Outlooks Ahmad al-Husaynī's Return to the Classics CHAPTER 5 The Rise of the Editor Ahmad Zakī's Early Scholarship and the State of the Field Engagement with Orientalism The Systematic Collection and Preservation of Manuscripts The Role of the Editor (Muhaqqiq) CHAPTER 6 Reform through Books Muhammad `Abduh as a Reformer of Language The Multifaceted Activism of Tāhir al-Jazā'irī CHAPTER 7 The Backlash against Postclassicism A Transnational Network of Book Collectors: Ibn Taymiyya as a Model of Broad Erudition Contesting the Power of Saints CHAPTER 8 Critique and Philology Historical Criticism Pseudo-philology Textual Criticism Conclusion Bibliography Index It was the late summer of my second year in graduate school, and my train was speeding away from the urban moloch of Cairo toward Alexandria on the Mediterranean coast, cutting through the Nile delta, whose lush greenery was sprinkled with the white of the first cotton buds of the season. I was taking 3 | Page s potlight|©authors|or|wordtrade.com wordtrade.com| spotlight some time off from the neatly printed books of Harvard's Widener Library to explore Arabic manuscripts at the Egyptian National Library in Cairo. After it had closed for the day, I had spent a few hours book shopping around the Azhar mosque, one of the oldest still functioning institutions of learning in the world, and was now on my way back to my temporary home. I was exhausted and had clearly gotten too much sun, but I was making an effort to review the notes I had taken that day. My haphazard stabs at the National Library's large manuscript collection, at the time housed in a dingy concrete block in Cairo's Bulaq district, had yielded a surprising find: a work on Islamic law, written 1,200 years earlier by an Egyptian named Abu Ya`qūb al-Buwaytī, which recent academic publications had declared extinct. Sitting at the microfilm reader that morning (the library did not allow access to the manuscript itself) and realizing what I was looking at, I had scrolled frantically through the text, scribbling notes as I went. The work appeared to be a complete treatment of the principal areas of Islamic law, and it included a methodological discussion on how to read and interpret scripture—one of the oldest such discussions to be found. I had immediately requested a copy of the manuscript, but this would not be ready until the following week, so for now all I had were my hastily jotted notes. The last thing I had written in my notebook was the name of the copyist—a certain 'Abd al-Ra'ūf from Kazan, the Tartar Muslim city on the Volga River—and the year in which the manuscript had been copied: 1325. That year fell in the Mamluk period, when Egypt and Syria were the intellectual centers of the Muslim world. But revisiting my notes, I frowned: why had I written only 1325, without its Hijri counterpart? The Islamic Hijri calendar is more than six centuries behind the Gregorian calendar, though the gap shrinks by about eleven days each year, as the Hijri calendar tracks lunar rather than solar years.' When I wrote down the date, I reasoned, I must have automatically converted it into its Gregorian equivalent, but why had I not made a note of the original Hijri date also? I was too worn out to ruminate on the matter further that day, but when I awoke the following day with my headache gone, the answer struck me: 1325 was not the Common Era date; it was the Hijri date. This meant that the manuscript of al- Buwayti's book had been copied as recently as in 1907 CE. No wonder I had, in my groggy exhaustion after a long day of work, misread my own notes. Why would a hugely important work have been copied by hand in the twentieth century, even as it remained unknown in the published literature? Puzzling though the manuscript's provenance was, I had to push it to the back of my mind. My dissertation research focused on the early period of Islam, and it was the content of al-Buwaytī's book, not the textual history of this particular manuscript, that was immediately relevant to my investigation of the genesis of Islamic law.