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005			20201214121533.0
008			201214b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781350121386
040			_cNVIC
100	1		_aNatalia K. Suit
245	1	0	_aQur'anic Matters: _bMaterial Meditations and Religious Practice in Egypt
264		1	_aNew York: _bBloomsbury Publishing, _c2020
300			_a211 p., _c26 cm
440			_aBloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
520			_a"In Qur'anic Matters, Natalia Suit explores the materiality of books, focusing on the mushaf. With its paper, binding, ink, and script, the mushaf is not simply a carrier of the Qur'anic text but, by the virtue of its material body, it also has the ability to engender reformulations of religious knowledge and practice. Reading the Qur'an on a screen of a phone, for example, does not require the same forms of ritual ablutions as reading a printed text. The rules of purity limiting the access to the Qur'anic text for menstruating woman change when the Qur'anic text is mediated by digital bytes instead of paper. Qur'anic Matters spans the time between two important technological shifts-the introduction of printed Qur'anic books in Egypt in the early nineteenth century and the digitization of the Qur'an almost two centuries later. Throughout, Natalia Suit weaves together the theological, legal, economic, and social "presences" of the Qur'anic books into a single account. She argues that the message and the materiality of the object are not separate from each other, nor are they separate from the human bodies with which they come in contact"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650			_aIslam _xReligious practice _xQur'an _zEgypt
942			_2ddc _cBK
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