From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: July 1, 1997| Author: Smyth, William | COPYRIGHT 1997 American Oriental Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Book in the Islamic World is a collection of papers given at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. in November of 1989. The papers were part of a conference which was itself part of a series of conferences and expositions the Library has held on the idea of the book in Western and non-Western cultures. The papers in this collection cover a wide range of topics and historical periods and so form a good, if somewhat eclectic, introduction to the subject.

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