TY - JOUR
T1 - The dawn of Arab printing
T2 - A view from the fringe: In memory of Bernard Lewis: Mentor, friend, gentleman
AU - Ayalon, Ami
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/7/3
Y1 - 2018/7/3
N2 - The adoption of printing in the Ottoman Arab provinces in the nineteenth century portended a cultural transformation with profound implications, known as the nahda. Focusing on the Syrian town of Tripoli (Tarabulus al-Sham) as a case study, the article examines the historic cultural change from a peripheral vantage point. It looks at the impact of Arab printing and publishing, which evolved primarily in Cairo, Alexandria, and Beirut, on a community on the fringe of cultural change and examines its cultural interrelationship with these centers. Its findings show that, more than acting as mere consumers of print, Tripoli residents in substantial numbers took an active part in the discourse on social and cultural dilemmas which printing facilitated across the region, before adopting similar novelties in their own town toward the end of the century. The probe casts light on themanifold process bywhich printing, its products, and its diffusion mechanisms spread throughout the region. As printing was a key channel for circulating news and views, the study also affords a credible notion of the role that communities away from the production epicenters played in the nahda.
AB - The adoption of printing in the Ottoman Arab provinces in the nineteenth century portended a cultural transformation with profound implications, known as the nahda. Focusing on the Syrian town of Tripoli (Tarabulus al-Sham) as a case study, the article examines the historic cultural change from a peripheral vantage point. It looks at the impact of Arab printing and publishing, which evolved primarily in Cairo, Alexandria, and Beirut, on a community on the fringe of cultural change and examines its cultural interrelationship with these centers. Its findings show that, more than acting as mere consumers of print, Tripoli residents in substantial numbers took an active part in the discourse on social and cultural dilemmas which printing facilitated across the region, before adopting similar novelties in their own town toward the end of the century. The probe casts light on themanifold process bywhich printing, its products, and its diffusion mechanisms spread throughout the region. As printing was a key channel for circulating news and views, the study also affords a credible notion of the role that communities away from the production epicenters played in the nahda.
KW - Arabic
KW - Nahda
KW - Printing
KW - Publishing
KW - Tripoli
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U2 - 10.1080/21520844.2018.1509188
DO - 10.1080/21520844.2018.1509188
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AN - SCOPUS:85058710175
SN - 2152-0844
VL - 9
SP - 259
EP - 274
JO - Journal of the Middle East and Africa
JF - Journal of the Middle East and Africa
IS - 3
ER -