The book in the Islamic world : the written word and communication in the Middle Eat / edited by George N. Atiyeh.

Consists of papers presented at a conference held November 8-9, 1990 at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

From the manuscript age to the age of printed books / Muhsin Mahdi -- The Koranic text : from revelation to compilation / Jacques Berque -- "Of making many books there is no end" : the classical Muslim view / Franz Rosenthal -- Oraltransmission and the book in Islamic education / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- The book of life-metaphors connected with the book in Islamic literatures / Annemarie Schimmel -- Biographical dictionaries : inner structure and cultural significance/ Wadad al-Qaٌdi -- The book in the grammatical tradition : development in content and methods / Ranzi Baalbaki -- Women's roles in the art of Arabic calligraphy / Salah al-Din al-Munajjid -- Some illustrations in Islamic scientific manuscripts and their secrets / David A. King -- A royal manuscript and its transformation : the life history of a book / Priscilla P. Soucek and Filiz ٠agman -- Faris Al-Shidyaq and the transition from scribal to print culture in the Middle East/ Geoffrey Roper -- The book in the modern Arab world : the cases of Le