The Book in Fact and Fiction in Pre-Modern Arabic Literature
Publisher: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Published: 2012
Number of pages: 263
First sentence: As Johannes Pedersen stated in his seminal work: ‘in scarcely any other culture did literary life play such a role as in Islam’ - speedy dissemination of books, their transmission, authentication, production, reproduction and exchange testify to an enormous activity in the Arab-Islamic world.