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Hirschler, Konrad; Hirschler, Konrad
2012., 2011, 2011-12-20eBook
The Middle East was one of the most literate civilizations during the high and late medieval period and home to bustling book markets, voluminous libraries and sophisticated book production. After the "paper revolution" of the ninth and tenth centuries, the number of books and the availability of the written word increased dramatically. In the scholarly world the written word played an increasingly prominent role and reading was taken up by wider sections of the population.
