Lecture on Islamic manuscripts

The Islamic Manuscript Association Lecture Series

"Why did they not print their books?  Stories about the reasons why
    printing was introduced so late in the Muslim world"
Bender Room, 5th Floor Bing Wing, Green Library
Stanford, California, USA
Wednesday 5 August 2015
18.30 pm

Registration required; Free of charge

A lecture by Professor Jan Just Witkam, professor emeritus of
codicology and palaeography of the Islamic world at the University
of Leiden and editor-in-chief of The Islamic Manuscript
Association's Journal of Islamic Manuscripts.

The Islamic Manuscript Association, in cooperation with the
Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation and Stanford University Libraries is
pleased to announce the next in its series of occasional lectures:
"Why did they not print their books?  Stories about the reasons why
printing was introduced so late in the Muslim world", presented by
Professor Jan Just Witkam, professor emeritus of codicology and
palaeography of the Islamic world at the University of Leiden and
editor-in-chief of The Islamic Manuscript Association's Journal of
Islamic Manuscripts.

The first time that a book in Arabic script was printed by Muslims
in an Islamic country was in the year 1727, more than two-and-a-half
century after the first Western book that was printed with movable
type.  Historians and others have asked why this could happen, as if
history can provide answers.  In their research they have come up
with explanations that tell more about themselves than about the
subject itself.  These stories, and the questions which they try to
answer, are the subject of the lecture.  The stories about the
transition period between writing and printing books rather
illustrate a fascinating stage in Western thinking about Muslim
culture.

The lecture is limited to 70 persons and places will be filled on a
first-come, first-served basis.  The event is free of charge.

For more information, and to register, please see

    <URL:http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/lectureseries/2015.aspx>

The Islamic Manuscript Association is an international non-profit
organisation dedicated to protecting Islamic manuscript collections
and supporting those who work with them.  It was formed in response
to the urgent need to address the poor preservation and
inaccessibility of many Islamic manuscript collections around the
world.  The Association's lecture series publicises work with
Islamic manuscripts, bringing expert knowledge and insights to new
audiences beyond the Association's core membership.  If your
institution is interested in collaborating with the Association to
present a particular lecture or to suggest a speaker, please write
to us at admin<-at->islamicmanuscript<.>org.

R.B. Davidson MacLaren
Executive Director, The Islamic Manuscript Association
Assistant Head, Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation
Director Emeritus, Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation and Dar al-Kutub
    Manuscript Project
33 Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1QY
United Kingdom
+44 1223 303 177
Fax: +44 1223 302 218


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