The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices

Abstract

1 Reading and writerly culture - Literacy, orality and aurality - The written word in the Middle Period - 'Popular' practices of reading 2 A city is reading: Popular and learned reading sessions - Methodological considerations - Reading Communities between scholarly sessions and popular sessions - The order of seating: Social and cultural differences - Motivations to participate in popular readings - Changes over time: Reading certificates and 'popular' culture 3 Learning to read: Popularisation and the written word in children's schools - Textualisation and curricular changes - Methods to teach reading and writing - The spread of the endowed school and social changes 4 Local endowed libraries and their readers - The central ruler library and the 'decline' of post-classical libraries - The development of the local endowed library - Profiles of holdings in private and local endowed libraries 5 Popular reading practices - The popular epic - Popular epics and the written word - Textualisation and challenges to scholarly authority - Writing for a popular readership 6 Conclusion

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 63 citations exist upstream.