Print and the Arabo-Islamic Renaissance
Ahmed El Shamsy, University of Chicago
October 19, 2020 · 12:00 pm—1:20 pm · Webinar
Program in Near Eastern Studies
Near Eastern Studies Virtual Seminar
Respondent: Anthony Grafton, History
Ahmed El Shamsy is an associate professor of Islamic Thought in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He studies the intellectual history of Islam, focusing on the evolution of the classical Islamic disciplines and scholarly culture within their broader historical context. He is the author of The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History (2013) and Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition (2020).
Open to the public – Registration required: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UNpY3xASSsKvjLb-x1j-6g(link is external)
A digital copy of Rediscovering the Islamic classics : how editors and print culture transformed an intellectual tradition is available for PUID holders here: https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/11778717
