Anouar Majid publishes Tabsir column on the role of paper in early Islam

Anouar Majid, Ph.D., UNE associate provost for global initiatives and director of the Center for Global Humanities, contributed a column on Jan. 31, 2013 to the online publication Tabsir: Insight on Islam and the Middle East on the role of paper in the early development of Islam. 

In the column Majid contemplates the implications of Jonathan Bloom’s book Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World and comes to the conclusion that "Islam would not have been what it is today. That’s because everything we know about Islam and its Prophet from Muslim sources date more or less to this Abbasid period [in the 8th century]. Read the column.

Majid is the author of five critically acclaimed books on Islam and the West, including Islam and America: Building a Future without Prejudice, and a novel, Si Yussef, which has been the focus of much scholarly and critical interest.

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