Nick Arnett wrote: > >The main thing I've known about Islam is that it has had such a strong oral >tradition that the printing press did not have nearly the impact in Islamic >lands as it did in Christian areas. And since I've focused my readings on >printing technology in history, that meant I saw very little about Islam. > >How do you happen to know all this? > I know something. The printing press used pig's hair to clean the printing pieces - and the pig is an impure animal. So, printing has been severely delayed in Islam...
Alberto Monteiro
