The Book in the Islamic World:  The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East 

 - Albany:  State University of New York Press,  1995 
 - xviii, 305 p.,  ill.;  26 cm 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0791424731 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Faris al-Shidyaq--1804-1887
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Publishing--Middle East<br/>Manuscripts--Middle East<br/>Print culture--Books--Middle East--Lebanon--Egypt<br/>Islamic education--Oral transmission--Written transmission--Middle East<br/>Islamic literatures<br/>Biographical dictionaries<br/>Grammar--Grammatical tradition<br/>Arabic calligraphy--Female calligraphers<br/>Islamic manuscripts--Illustrations<br/>Higher education--Religious imagination