Knowledge Disembodied: From Paper to Digital Media

Knowledge Disembodied: From Paper to Digital Media

Knowledge Disembodied: From Paper to Digital Media
Abdullah Ibrahim Omran Article Print and digital media are believed to have shaken religious authority in the Muslim world, essentially because they popularize and pluralize Islamic knowledge. But how exactly did these novel technologies affect the nature of knowledge production and the behavior of scholars and the public? The pages that follow explore the historical relationship between technological developments and the production and transmission of knowledge over the course…