Qurʼanic matters: material mediations and religious practice in Egypt
"In Qurʼanic Matters, Natalia Suit explores the materiality of books, focusing on the mushaf. With its paper, binding, ink, and script, the mushaf is not simply a carrier of the Qur'anic text but, by the virtue of its material body, it also has the ability to engender reformulations of rel...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London [England]
Bloomscury Academic
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Edition: | First edition |
| Series/Journal: | Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Qurʼan. Muṣḥaf al-murattal
B Qurʼan Criticism, interpretation, etc B Egypt B Islam Study and teaching (Egypt) B Egypt Religion B Electronic books |
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| Summary: | "In Qurʼanic Matters, Natalia Suit explores the materiality of books, focusing on the mushaf. With its paper, binding, ink, and script, the mushaf is not simply a carrier of the Qur'anic text but, by the virtue of its material body, it also has the ability to engender reformulations of religious knowledge and practice. Reading the Qurʼan on a screen of a phone, for example, does not require the same forms of ritual ablutions as reading a printed text. The rules of purity limiting the access to the Qurʼanic text for menstruating woman change when the Qur'anic text is mediated by digital bytes instead of paper. Qurʼanic Matters spans the time between two important technological shifts-the introduction of printed Qurʼanic books in Egypt in the early nineteenth century and the digitization of the Qurʼan almost two centuries later. Throughout, Natalia Suit weaves together the theological, legal, economic, and social 'presences' of the Qurʼanic books into a single account. She argues that the message and the materiality of the object are not separate from each other, nor are they separate from the human bodies with which they come in contact."-- Preface Introduction Part I: The Makers -- 1. The Beginning(s) -- 2. Pens, Letters, and the Politics of Correctness -- 3. Qur'anic Icons -- Part II: The Custodians -- 4. Debating Defects -- 5. The (Ortho)Graphic Blueprint -- 6. What the Eyes Can't See but the Hands Can Touch: Mushaf in Braille -- Part III: The Users -- 7. How Printing Created Manuscripts -- 8. Uses and Abuses -- 9. Enacting the Electronic Qur'an Conclusion -- Index -- Bibliography. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 135012138X |
| Access: | Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9781350121416 |