The Book in the Islamic World

The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East

This book explores Muslims' conception of themselves as "the people of the book" and explains the multifaceted meanings of this concept. Published jointly with the Library of Congress, it is an illustrated history of the book and the written word in the Islamic world.

Book. in. the. Grammatical. Tradition: Development. in. Content. and. Methods.
Ramzi. Baalbaki. Through sheer ... its material, technical terms, and analytic
methods, given the relative scarcity of grammatical activity in the pre-Sībawayhi
period.