title: Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World
author: Jonathan M. Bloom
description: Though paper was invented in China around 100-200 B.C., it took nearly a thousand years for Europeans to employ it and Muslims were responsible for introducing them to the technology. Bostoon College professor of Islamic and Asian art Jonathan M. Bloom explores paper's early evolution and use in Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World, and argues that "much in the history of Islamic civilization in the Middle Ages... can be seen in terms of the conflicting claims of memory and written record." Accompanying Bloom's elegant prose are 48 color plates and 53 b&amp;w illustrations of maps, illustrated texts of Islamic poetry, pages of the Koran, and papermaking techniques.
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  New Brunswick (U.S.A.) and London (U.K.)
  ArAb  AwAkening  And  
  islAmic revivAl
  The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East
  martin kramer
  
  Second paperback printing 2009
  Copyright © 1996 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey 
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