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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies"
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Rediscovering the Islamic Classics . . . contains fascinating insights, which anyone with even a vague interest in Islam’s intellectual history will enjoy."
---Usman Butt, Middle East Monitor"
Rediscovering the Islamic Classics is one of the most important books that have been published in Islamic studies in recent years. It skillfully and convincingly tells the story of how the printing press transformed access to 'Islamic classics' in the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries; and in doing so, it fundamentally reshapes our perspective on virtually any field of Islamic scholarship."
---Johanna Pink, Die Welt des Islams"Not only a story of how Islamic classics were rediscovered, but also a story that invites us to rethink these Islamic classics and the canonizing forces (read: real people) that have shaped them and continue to do so. This story had to be told, and El Shamsy has done so in a most lucid yet entertaining way. . . . I can only recommend everyone to expose him- or herself to it."
---Kristof D'hulster, Global Literary Theory"[An] engaging yet pleasantly thought-out book."
---Mehraj Din, Religion & Theology
