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DESCRIPTION:During the last decade\, the field of Arabic and Islamic studie
 s focused on the revaluation and rediscovery of an extensive amount of sou
 rces\, mainly in manuscript form\, that bear witness to hereto neglected a
 spects of Arabo-Islamicate cultural history. More specifically\, the re-ap
 preciation and the unprecedented analyses of these manuscript documents ha
 s fostered the reassessment of outdated narratives surrounding the evoluti
 on of various Islamic disciplines\, such as linguistic sciences (al-ʿulūm 
 al-lughawiyah)\, logic (manṭiq) and rational and philosophical theology (ʿ
 ilm al-kalām and ḥikmah)\, mathematical and astronomical sciences (al-riyā
 ḍiyāt\, ʿilm al-hayʾah)\, and Quranic exegesis (tafsīr) and legal methodol
 ogy (uṣūl al-fiqh). Accordingly\, scholars in these fields of the Islamic 
 intellectual tradition are paying increasing attention to unveiling this m
 anuscript tradition. However\, the majority of these sources are not avail
 able in modern editions\, and access to a considerable part of these manus
 cript forms can often be hindered by various kinds of obstacles. Scholars 
 and researchers are therefore often forced to limit the range and scope of
  their research according to the accessibility of that manuscript heritage
 .\n\nIt is however less known that in between the 19th and the 20th centur
 ies\, a good amount of that manuscript heritage has been produced and circ
 ulated in the form of lithographed copies\, mainly within madrasa networks
  in the Arab world. Lithography in the Arabo-Islamicate intellectual panor
 ama was more welcomed than typography because of several religio-cultural 
 and socio-economic reasons\, and filled an important gap between the manus
 cript and printing tradition that would follow. Lithography was still tigh
 tly bound to traditional handwritten manuscript production while offering 
 the advantages the printing technology. Many among the most relevant works
  on linguistic sciences\, rational and philosophical theology\, mathematic
 al and astronomical sciences\, Sufism and Quranic exegesis and juridical m
 ethodology\, executed by professional scribes and supervised by trained sc
 holars\, have become the tools of the madrasa tradition. The tradition and
  the production of lithographed books has received little attention despit
 e their number and  relevance to the Islamic intellectual tradition Schola
 rs and researches in the Arabo-Islamicate tradition are thus often unaware
  of not only the existence of lithography but also of their relative acces
 sibility. Accordingly\, a rigorous and thorough investigation into the tra
 dition of the Arabic lithographed books will undoubtedly benefit many scho
 lars in various fields of research.\n\nThis exhibition is an attempt to hi
 ghlight the richness and complexity of the lithographed book tradition and
  suggest the importance it can have in modern scholarship. It was curated 
 by Giovanni Carrera\, doctoral student at the Institute of Islamic Studies
  and Anaïs Salamon\, Head of the Islamic Studies Library. The selection of
  titles has been possible thanks to the efforts of Dr. Adam Gacek\, who fi
 rst provided a description of the Islamic Studies Library’s collection of 
 lithographed books at 9I��������� in his Arabic Lithographed Books i
 n the Islamic Studies Library in 1996.\n\nA Tradition in Transition: Litho
 graphy in Islamic Cultural History is accessible on the 1st floor of the I
 slamic Studies Library during opening hours.\n
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170718
LOCATION:Islamic Studies Library\, Morrice Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 
 0E1\, 3485 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Exhibition: A Tradition in Transition: Lithography in Islamic Cultu
 ral History
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 slamic-cultural-history-265142
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