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The Material and Materialist History of the Nahḍa Press - Hala Auji. Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (Leiden: BRILL, 2016). Pp. 156. $149.00 cloth. ISBN 9789004309999. - Ami Ayalon. The Arab Print Revolution: Cultural Production and Mass Readership (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016). Pp. 234. $99.99 cloth. ISBN 9781107149441. - Elizabeth M. Holt. Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017). Pp. 196. $25.00 paper. ISBN 9780823276035.
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2 See for example, The Making of the Arab Intellectual: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood, ed. Hamzah, Dyala (London: Routledge, 2013)Google Scholar; Arabic Thought Beyond The Liberal Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda, eds. Weiss, Max and Jens Hanssen (Cambridge University Press, 2016)Google Scholar; Islam After Liberalism, eds. Devji, Faisal and Zaheer Kazmi (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)Google Scholar.
3 “Arkhe, we recall, names at once the commencement and the commandment. This name apparently coordinates two principles in one: the principle according to nature or history…but also the principle according to the law… [the] nomological principle.” Derrida, Jacques and Prenowitz, Eric, “Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression,” Diacritics 25.2 (Summer, 1995): 9Google Scholar.
4 Ayalon, Arab Print Revolution, ix.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid, 197.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid, 5.
9 Ibid, 7.
10 Ibid, 10.
11 Ibid, 14.
12 Ibid, 16.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid, 37.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid, 43.
17 Ibid, 44.
18 Ibid, 47.
19 Ibid, 56.
20 Auji, Printing Arab Modernity, 5.
21 Ibid, 10.
22 Ibid, 2.
23 Ibid, 25.
24 Ibid, 32.
25 Ibid, 37.
26 Ibid, 49.
27 Ibid, 67.
28 Ibid, 85.
29 Ibid, 92.
30 Ayalon, Arab Print Revolution, 62.
31 Ibid, 99.
32 Ibid, 115.
33 Ibid.
34 Ibid, 131-32.
35 Holt, Fictitious Capital, 3.
36 Ibid, 5.
37 Ibid, 2.
38 Ibid,10.
39 Ibid, 31.
40 Ibid, 19.
41 Ibid, 39.
42 Ibid, 42.
43 Ibid, 45.
44 Ibid, 54.
45 Ibid, 65.
46 Ibid, 73.
47 Ibid, 93.
48 Ibid, 116.
49 Ibid, 117.
50 Ibid, 133.
51 Ibid, 137.