- Paperback: 134 pages
- Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr (December 1983)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0691101485
- ISBN-13: 978-0691101484
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 295 g
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On the Arabic Book, Mar 27 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Arabic Book (Hardcover)
Johannes Pedersen's "The Arabic Book" is a well written piece on Arabian literature including information on books before islam, much about the Quran and traditional Arabic literature. It includes information on composition, transmission of the books from scribes and booksellers to writing materials to scripts and calligraphy, book painting, binding, and libraries. There is information on the printed book too. It has many a splendid illustration as well. It is hard to find book, but this lil' monkey would highly suggest the search, for the text is well worth it.
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A disappointing classic, Dec 27 2007
By C. W. Johnson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Arabic Book (Hardcover)
Although this is a classic text on the development of the Arabic book it is now disappointing to read. It was originally written in 1949, translated and published in English in 1984. There are several corrections of fact and opinion contradicted by other evidence, footnoted by the translator. But it is also disappointing in not describing the basics. A collection of Arabic books such as the one exhibited recently in the Art gallery of New South Wales (The Arts of Islam: Treasures from the Nasser D Khalili Exhibition) in 2007 illustrates facets of books that are just not explained in The Arabic Book. These include the decorative features of so many pages, which are called hasps; the inclusion of commentaries, commentaries on commentaries, and interleaving of text, decoration and gloss or translation as a common feature in the design of many books. Pedersen is strong on the process of composition and copying, the production of books. For a bookbinder the short chapter on bookbinding has some snippets of information, but no great depth of insight.
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