The Ottoman Ulema 2: The Printing Press, Coffee and Secularisation with Dr Yakoob Ahmed
The Thinking Muslim
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The Printing Press and Educational Transformation
The printed press helps in the construction of constitutions, terms of documents. All over the world, people are reading newspapers to educate mass and begardin readership levels. Books are being created far more quickly than they were before. Newspaper culture introduces a new form of what you could call intellectual learning. And it's not just that these printed technologies then give the possibilities of ideological movements,. like the wahabis to be able to be visible for the first time.
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