Kathryn A Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4246743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn A Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn A |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1653-4579 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An End Overcome by a Beginning: The Diminishment of the Khedivate, the Fading Away of Its Print Culture, and the Rise of Debates Over Society’s Direction in Colonial Egyptian Print
What is typically seen as the flowering of print culture in Egypt circa the 1880s and 1890s—i.e., newspapers and periodicals and authorship and eventually novels, and political and religious debates in print—in fact marks not a flowering, but the collapse of the first print culture that existed there. This original print culture arose and functioned via the mediation of the khedival government. It therefore necessarily came undone with the challe…
An Egyptian Shaykh's Literary World, 1870: Digitally Reconstructing Islamic Print Culture Through Mustafa Salama al-Najjari's Books
A Printer's Odd Plea to Reform Legal Pluralism in Khedival Egypt
In 1871, an Italian-Jewish printer published a peculiar Arabic treatise from Cairo. It promoted strengthening legal pluralism in Khedival Egypt by realigning laws there to accord with those of the Ottoman Empire and European states. Composed by the printer's legal team, the treatise questioned how justice could be obtained if the extraterritorial privileges of European subjects and protégés were not guaranteed. The printer had been motivated by h…
Book history, print, and the Middle East
This article describes how the study of Middle Eastern book history arose from scholarship on the history of the book, a multifaceted line of inquiry which developed around the early modern European experience of print. I argue that these origins influenced Middle Eastern book history insofar as it took the topic of printing as its main focus. However, an unevenness characterized this focus since European printing became commonplace from the earl…
Did Ottoman Sultans Ban Print
This paper argues that the study of Ottoman printing developed from the European experience of print, and that this history continues to impact contemporary scholarship on the topic unduly. To illustrate this point, the paper provides a factual overview for incidents of printing among Ottomans and compares them to their historiographical portrayal. It then goes on to chart the life-cycle of the rumor that two Ottoman sultans banned print as it or…
The Political Economy of Private Printing in Cairo as Told From a Commissioning Deal Turned Sour, 1871
This article examines the political economy of Cairo's emerging Arabic private printing industry during the third quarter of the 19th century. I use the constituent texts of the industry to demonstrate that it developed upon the speculative model of commissioning, whereby individuals paid printers to produce particular works of their choosing. Commissioning indicates that Egyptian private printing grew from local traditions for producing handwrit…
Did Ottoman Sultans Ban Print
This paper argues that the study of Ottoman printing developed from the European experience of print, and that this history continues to impact contemporary scholarship on the topic unduly. To illustrate this point, the paper provides a factual overview for incidents of printing among Ottomans and compares them to their historiographical portrayal. It then goes on to chart the life-cycle of the rumor that two Ottoman sultans banned print as it or…
The Political Economy of Private Printing in Cairo as Told From a Commissioning Deal Turned Sour, 1871
This article examines the political economy of Cairo's emerging Arabic private printing industry during the third quarter of the 19th century. I use the constituent texts of the industry to demonstrate that it developed upon the speculative model of commissioning, whereby individuals paid printers to produce particular works of their choosing. Commissioning indicates that Egyptian private printing grew from local traditions for producing handwrit…
Book history, print, and the Middle East
This article describes how the study of Middle Eastern book history arose from scholarship on the history of the book, a multifaceted line of inquiry which developed around the early modern European experience of print. I argue that these origins influenced Middle Eastern book history insofar as it took the topic of printing as its main focus. However, an unevenness characterized this focus since European printing became commonplace from the earl…
Book history, print, and the Middle East
This article describes how the study of Middle Eastern book history arose from scholarship on the history of the book, a multifaceted line of inquiry which developed around the early modern European experience of print. I argue that these origins influenced Middle Eastern book history insofar as it took the topic of printing as its main focus. However, an unevenness characterized this focus since European printing became commonplace from the earl…
Did Ottoman Sultans Ban Print
This paper argues that the study of Ottoman printing developed from the European experience of print, and that this history continues to impact contemporary scholarship on the topic unduly. To illustrate this point, the paper provides a factual overview for incidents of printing among Ottomans and compares them to their historiographical portrayal. It then goes on to chart the life-cycle of the rumor that two Ottoman sultans banned print as it or…
The Political Economy of Private Printing in Cairo as Told From a Commissioning Deal Turned Sour, 1871
This article examines the political economy of Cairo's emerging Arabic private printing industry during the third quarter of the 19th century. I use the constituent texts of the industry to demonstrate that it developed upon the speculative model of commissioning, whereby individuals paid printers to produce particular works of their choosing. Commissioning indicates that Egyptian private printing grew from local traditions for producing handwrit…
A Printer's Odd Plea to Reform Legal Pluralism in Khedival Egypt
In 1871, an Italian-Jewish printer published a peculiar Arabic treatise from Cairo. It promoted strengthening legal pluralism in Khedival Egypt by realigning laws there to accord with those of the Ottoman Empire and European states. Composed by the printer's legal team, the treatise questioned how justice could be obtained if the extraterritorial privileges of European subjects and protégés were not guaranteed. The printer had been motivated by h…
An Egyptian Shaykh's Literary World, 1870: Digitally Reconstructing Islamic Print Culture Through Mustafa Salama al-Najjari's Books
An End Overcome by a Beginning: The Diminishment of the Khedivate, the Fading Away of Its Print Culture, and the Rise of Debates Over Society’s Direction in Colonial Egyptian Print
What is typically seen as the flowering of print culture in Egypt circa the 1880s and 1890s—i.e., newspapers and periodicals and authorship and eventually novels, and political and religious debates in print—in fact marks not a flowering, but the collapse of the first print culture that existed there. This original print culture arose and functioned via the mediation of the khedival government. It therefore necessarily came undone with the challe…
History (6 works) · Islamic Studies and History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · African history and culture analysis (3 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)