brief history:
The emergence of writing and reading coincided with the emergence of civilizations since ancient times in their various means and purposes.
For example, we find the civilizations of Mesopotamia that used cuneiform writing and inscriptions on clay tablets in the third millennium BC, and we see the Egyptians using papyrus papers and obelisks, while we find the civilizations of southern Arabia and Yemen writing in Musnad script and inscription on stones.
But the Arabs before Islam used to use leather, such as the pendants that were attached to the curtain of the Kaaba, and the oldest Arabic inscription is the inscription of Imru 'al-Qais ibn Amr, which is in the Louvre Museum.
As for the Chinese, they were the first to invent paper in its current form in about a year 105 After birth at the hands of Monk Tsai Lin.
And some of them were transferred by the Arabs after the Islamic conquests of Central Asia, where it was the first paper shop in Baghdad in a year 795M and from them to Europe through the Crusades.
And in the year 1447The human genius invented us with an invention considered the spearhead in the so-called Renaissance and to this day, namely, the invention of the printing press by John Gutenberg.
For hundreds of years, the paper book was the uninterested friend of civilizations and the undisputed lover of hearts, until the human clemency surprised us, as it usually does, with a new baby, my name is the electronic book (eBook) ..
The birth of electronic books:
The birth certificate for this newborn was issued in the year XNUMX 1971 And who was a forerunner of a cold war between printed books and electronic books, and that was at the hands of German Michael Hart in what was called Project Gutenberg.
The models presented in the XNUMXs by Park as a suggestion for the dynabook were among the first personal computers that could read electronic books.
The project continued to target a limited segment of readers and researchers until a year 1991 Where the Internet was popularized to the public, which represented a strong impetus for the spread of electronic books and the development of new book formats. It also witnessed the introduction of a number of programs for dealing with electronic books.
in a year 1993 The Digital Book Foundation publishes the first 50 e-books in DBF format on a floppy disk.
in a year 1995 Amazon has begun publishing its first batch of electronic books on the Internet, but they are not downloadable.
in a year 1996 Project Gutenberg announced that it had reached 1000 e-books and that the target was 1000000.
in a year 1998 Another newborn was born, which can be described as the spiritual twin of the e-book. The first electronic book reader, THE ROCKET READER from SOFTBOOK PRESS, was introduced, and this type of reader and its ilk was such a strong impetus in increasing the momentum of electronic books.
in a year 2000 Microsoft launches MICROSOFT READER powered by CLEARTYPE.
in a year 2003 Downloading of books is available from several US publishing houses.
And Amazon began to catch up with electronic readers and launched the first edition of its reader, known as Kindle, in the United States in a year. 2007 And in the same year, Bookeen launches the Cybook Gen3.
And in general 2008 An agreement was signed between Adobe and Sony to unify the software and hardware lines in a single product called Sony Reader PRS-505 and saw the light of day. 2009.
And it seems that Apple has contracted the infection with e-reader fever, as it was introduced at the beginning of the year 2010 Its product, known as the iPad, was distinguished from others in that it contracted with five out of six major publishing houses in Uncle Sam's country to distribute its books through the iBooks Store and using the iBooks reading program available on the software store.
In the second quarter of a year 2010 The Amazon report indicated that the percentage of electronic book sales to printed books is 140 for electronic versus 100 printed books, and in another report in January 2011 She indicated that the sales of electronic books have far exceeded the sales of printed books.
In the recent period, many programs have been introduced to convert or create electronic books such as Sigil and Adobe in Design, and with a little professionalism, the user can create his favorite books, and with these technologies we can say that the electronic book has been weaned and the former breastfeeding women no longer need Camazon and others.
One last pause:
To you, I am saddened by the fact that there is no publisher, institution, ministry of education, or Arab culture within the above dates - according to what came to me - and if there are Arab brilliance and attempts, but they are the jurisprudence of ambitious young people and not at the level of large institutions, with an emphasis not to diminish the efforts of those distinguished who They try to support the e-book just as we the users are one of the factors of encouragement or discouragement.
So what is the situation of the Arab reader with electronic books?
For more about e-books and bookstore applications Read here
Sources: English Wikipedia | The International Arab Encyclopedia | Amazon.com
Peace and mercy of God …
First, my dear brother, I greet you for your most wonderful article.
As for electronic books, books themselves are wonderful, whether they are paper or electronic, and I am a lover of them, but as for electronic books, I do not prefer them very much because book readers do not guarantee to the human eye the safety of their symptoms sufficiently despite the terrible progress in the technology of screens, so I prefer Paper books, which no longer find an audience like previous years
In the end, this is the opinion of my humble person ... Thanks
For some time now I have been preparing to write an article on this topic with ideas close to your proposal, so may God reward you for taking this trouble from us.
Asmar Yvonne Islam. The most wonderful effort
Thanks for bringing the topic up
I love reading and exploring a lot
So I was curious
His mother read that does not read
If we were to read and learn it would have happened in us
We were among the first nations to be educated thanks to Ibn Taymiyyah, Al-Khwarizmi and many others
But the West benefited from us to become one of the first. You remember the tsunami that struck Japan after how many days or how many months they used to take up school basketball fields, but when the dust came, we were praying, Lord, that dust came, and even I was claiming.
Sorry for being late
E-books are the best way to search for a topic. If you have a mandate on a topic, this will help you a lot
And you would have ipod
I see that there is a bright side to the electronic book market. I own a library of more than XNUMX books in PDF format and the Library of Alexandria project to achieve XNUMX e-books from promising projects and it will have a positive impact in the future. There are many who practice reading and it is not important that they appear to us in order to see them.
Good essay and fluid eloquent style
I took advantage of it
Also, I note that I have been following this site daily since I bought the iPhone
So that I read a lot and follow websites
The Internet has become a means of reading and learning, each according to his circumstances and what is available to him.
In the past, the search for, for example, the hadiths of the Prophet was difficult. Nevertheless, there are concerns such as Bukhari and other hadiths and scholars
And now the information is in our hands XNUMX hours a day and quite easily, and this is an argument on us, but it is a misfortune if we do not fulfill the right of that blessing - the ease of knowledge - my brothers, and God has transmitted it in your life, especially if you associate it with intention, and we do not forget to write what we read to confirm it. And supplication with God teach us what you do and benefit us from what you taught us
Oh God, teach us as you taught Abraham and understand us as you understood Solomon.
And other supplications.
For me
The best printed books, because when you read them, you find them firmly in your mind.
As for electronic, I find it for your enjoyment or entertainment
Thank you
One of the last signs of the small hour is that he wrote a book that spread throughout the world in his watch, that is, at the moment it was written
I think after that ……… ..?
May God reward you for your most wonderful effort
Wonderful article
But how do I read e-books on iPhone?
Please explain how to download e-books on iPhone
Peace, mercy and blessings of God
Happy New Year to everyone, the article is rich in information and very beautiful, and this is not surprising, since you brought us back to that. I wish you good luck .
Do not forget
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Dear brothers
Whenever the efforts of those who love reading and culture come together, and everyone takes the hand of his brother, we will make the impossible
** The thing that always raises thinking is why the sudden abstention from reading and culture in our Arab societies alone ??
Do not you see that it was arranged at night!
Oh God, we gave you a beautiful response
God loves us to read
When the Muslims lost their reading, they became imitators, and when they were reading they were imitating
I hope that Muslim youth will read even one book every quarter of a year, meaning in the end four books per year
And to you my best regards
I tried many times
But I can only read through the printed book
thank you ()
I am the one who notice that the iBook application is poor in Arabic books, and as the commentators prefer. We are a nation. We read and we do not read except from the mercy of my Lord. Thanks for the helpful topic.
I thank you for this information, but I would like to draw your attention that Steve Jobs is of Syrian Arab origin from the city of Homs, so do not master Arab minds there that are able to lead even if they are in a foreign country. Thank you.
I think the concerns of life are what hindered people from reading
Thank you all, Shepherd, for the great information
And the best friend in time is a book
There is an application for Obeikan Library, House of Civilization, House of Knowledge for Millions, Abu Dhabi Authority for Heritage and Culture, Rufoof Program, and My Library program
It is sad that we pay attention to and monitor the foreign beginnings in this field and neglect the Arab beginnings
In the article, we did not talk about applications, but rather about the role of institutions and publishing houses in electronic content
Thank you iPhone Islam ...
Efforts you can thank for ...
Peace, mercy and blessings of God
Allow me first, on the occasion of the end of the holy month, to tell you: May God accept your fasting and resurrection, and the good of your deeds, and every year, and you are all healthy and well.
From my personal experience and due to my intense passion for reading and my constant travel, I can assert that the reader of electronic books, especially the iPad device, is a new opening and a great blessing from God’s blessings for all mankind. Muslims should also make the most of it, as I am confident that we will soon see a huge leap for this device. It specifically addresses its deficiencies and shortcomings and facilitates them, especially writing and text formatting operations.
On my travels, I was suffering from carrying some books with me, such as weight, or I did not find the book I needed at the right time, but after I owned this miracle device, I took my library with me on my jewelry and I went and browse any book with the click of a button.
Let me, if the thoughts are scattered, as I wrote this idea in a hurry, and I might have another time.
Peace, mercy and blessings of God
Mmmmmm …… Aha, the first time I know
Reading and writing are the basis of life, whether electronic or ordinary
(Noun) n and the pen and what they write ...
Whatever it was, I do not do without regular writing and reading
Creation spread in our Arab countries, thank you for the effort
Thank you for the instructions, may God give you well
The most beautiful readers and informed
God Almighty taught man what he did not know
In my opinion, paper books are claimed to be electronic reading
I notice that reading with electronic books is more like fast reading, because while you are reading online, you are in the world of technology and speed, and you will not be able to psychologically prepare for reading for many hours ...
It is in my view the best traditional books to read.
When the nation will return to read to read
God willing, we will see it in the next few days
The iPad has made a leap in books, and I am one who admits that I was not reading, not because I do not like reading, but because free time is restricted away from the book, but now the iPad is with me everywhere, any free time I can continue reading
I prefer the printed book, but due to the tyranny of the scientific and technological revolution, I have become inclined to read electronic books
Glory be to who taught man what he did not know
God succeeds a nation, I read, do not read
To be honest, I love to read, if it was its beginning and people, I would love to read it
A nation reads a nation that rises
I liked the article very much
شكرا لكم
The paper book still has its own splendor, but it is noticeable that the Arabic electronic book is very expensive compared to the foreign book.
I don’t know how long the Arab libraries exploit the people, who read books on the iPad or iPhone, and their number is estimated at thousands per day. They cannot be compared to those looking for the book in commercial libraries because of the ease of obtaining it and saving time.
So I hope the publishers will reconsider the current prices.
And you were fine
Honestly, after I owned the iPhone, I didn't buy any printed book!
Read all books online on iPhone
Wonderful topic
All thanks to you
Whoever loves to read keeps pace with modern development in communicating information, the lesson and the result.
I can only express my thanks and gratitude to you for this upscale style and for this delicate harmony in narrating information ... ... Accept my greetings and traffic.
In the Western world, the possession of a book and the practice of reading is considered a sacred thing. Therefore, all groups of society carry the book, large and small, and eating reading is no less important than eating and drinking .. Just as there is no prohibition on any book except in rare cases.
But in our Arab world ... a certain group is someone who has a library rich in books, and whoever carries a book is classified as an "educated person," and prohibiting book titles more than making them available ... especially the history books and political studies of our Arab world .. There is no need here to delve into the negative seas.
But we are now in a time of awakening and awakening after hibernation .. If only we would soon see the most famous literary, cultural, social and political titles ... Etc., it collects (governmental or community institutions or a youth gathering) to build a huge Arab library and archive. This is not difficult. The need only requires determination and sincere intention.
My brother the shepherd ... a wonderful topic as we are used to you..May Allah reward you well, and sorry for being late to you :)
I apologize to you, Professor Ahmed, for sending the article to Yvonne Islam before your artistic production, and what you did about dispensing with you and witnessing God, but I know that you are busy and at the same time I saw the director of the blog working alone with a vacation, so I would love to help him as much as I can and I am sure that if this humble article touched it, it would have been more Baha, you have great respect for me
Glory be to Allah
After the books were written in Egypt and printed in the Levant and read in Baghdad
Become one of us does not find time to cover the basics of his life
But God willing, the goodness in this nation until the Hour of Judgment
And back, God willing, we will take our position among the nations
Thank you for the wonderful topic, and I would like to note to the Brotherhood that our Arab nation is still fine, as there are many who like to read
God loves us in reading his holy book
And his hadiths
Either with electronic books or otherwise
May Allah reward you a thousand good for the humble transmission :)
greetings to you all
Wonderful and beautiful article
And we, God willing, are determined to develop our project to become one of the largest sources for Arab e-books, and practical steps have already begun, and we ask God to grant success to all.
May God reward you with good iBooks.ae, for you have made your mark in the world of Arabic electronic books.
May God reward you all the best, your steps in the field of e-book are great, and we urge you to do more to enrich Arab electronic libraries in various aspects.
A certificate I am proud of from a project management and website for the Encyclopedia of Arab Electronic Books
And God knows, my honorable teacher, that you are one of those whom I referred to at the end of the article
I disagree with the author of the article, but the Arab electronic library is rich with books, and we all know the Millennium Library and other things that contain Arab and Islamic heritage, but the problem is in the pockets of readers and not in producing Arabs and keeping pace with development.
She advised us a lot on this information and the transitional stages for reading
Thank you very much
My Lord did not give me a love for reading
So that I remember when I go with my brother who is fond of books for libraries, I keep sitting in the car for periods that sometimes reach above the hour.
But perhaps with the e-book, we will find something fun and change the routine ..
Even with the Holy Quran, reading became closer and easier with some devices such as the iPhone and iPad.
Our lack of development in this area, I think, is due
To the distance between reality and those in charge of it, including rulers and officials
God be with the help of the Muslim
Obeikan Library has an application in this field
Indeed, some readers suffer from a lack of understanding of the intended, overturning concepts, and also not in jurisprudence.
Because I honestly sat intruders on reading and not reciters, so I ask the reader to understand that and to understand the text and peace.
We Arabs do not discover anything but conspiracies, and we search only for the faults of each other
Praise be to God. It is sufficient for us to read the Qur’an and Sunnah. As for the rest of the books, some of them remain
For me, until now, the printed book is dominating my library
However, there are some attempts to read e-books, but I soon get bored to go to the printed book that dear to my heart .. But the advantage of electronic books is that you can carry a whole library in your hand and you can read whenever you want, whether the toilets that have special books !!
Or in the hospital and measure that ..
To comment on the words of some young people, I say that your reluctance to read for any reason whatsoever is not an excuse, whatever the reasons
And here I am and I seek refuge in God from it. I do not like reading, and I grew up in an environment that does not read and is not encouraged to read
But despite the difficulties, I started reading by buying some small books such as Sajid Al Abdali's Smart Reading book
And little by little
As for his question, we criticize the Ministry of Education and Society, and you are all good at criticizing and projections
Instead of criticizing, ask yourself
What did you offer to your community ??
Be the change that you want to see in the world
The most important thing is for reading to be important in a person's life, otherwise this development means nothing
A good article deserves encouragement, may Allah reward you
The Almighty said: And the Messenger said, O my Lord, that my people have taken this Qur’an for nothing
Only information is that the Adobe in Design program is more than XNUMX years old, and it is true that recently it began to support some formats for electronic books such as epub and not
It is intended for electronic books because it is mainly a desktop publishing program
The Arabs do not read because they are dead. If they were alive, God would hear them.
How do they read when they have the Qur’an and what is in it is rewarded?
Sorry, I did not complete the question ,;
Will Apple seek to expand the memory of its devices and not to exaggerate its price to match this great momentum of e-books ???
I thank the Shepherd for his always wonderful and distinguished presentation ,,,
I prefer paper books, especially for long reading
Mashallah, a wonderful offering. Running behind the temptations of life has prohibited a lot of covering the mind and the soul ... as we always see many developments in the field of facilitating reading, matched by a reluctance and non-exploitation of modern technologies and gasping behind the abbreviations or summaries that may be brief and do not convey the correct meaning ..
I wish those with experience to hasten to present Islamic books and Arabic language books, to facilitate their reading and then contribute to spreading the teachings of Islam and the value of .. (wisdom is the lost of the believer ...).
Question: Will you pursue
And what a terrible thing, Tony, I know that before I was born there was in devices that looked like the iPad, but the iPad, of course, replaced it.
I liked the first response that the Arab rulers say are the reason
God, my brother, you are a legend
What do you mask you do not read? !!!
May Allah guide you only
Traditional paper books are indispensable for us, so they are more beautiful and dearer to the soul
Thank you Yvonne Islam for this overview
Peace be upon you, may God reward you with good for all topics, free programs, and so on. As for e-books, I personally benefited from a benefit that I had not benefited from before. I carry my library with me where I go.
May Allah reward you again
It gives you wellness on this wonderful information
The rates published on the rates of Arab reading compared to others are very low.
And the era is the age of technology, so the electronic book remains one of the solutions in educating and raising this rate.
Therefore, free books in various disciplines should be published electronically, not just legal ones.
God willing, a nation, read Tawawood
To its glories and glory, and it will be at the beginning of the knees
((Always make optimism your slogan))
This is the approach of the Qur’an
If you follow the guidance of God from guidance, you will come back with certainty. Did you not hear the words of the Almighty in Surat Al-Israa: If you return and we make Hell for the unbelievers as a mat, and in Surat Taha, whoever follows gifts does not remain and does not suffer. , And in Surat Al-Imran; Do not be disheartened, do not be sad while you are the Most High (if you are believers)
I endorse what my brother Ibn Muhammad Ali said, and God is your helper
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You must know English
Nothing will benefit from this technology
I have a lot of e-books but my best read
If the nation of Muhammad moved away from the book of God
Will you read the other books ..?
God willing, I will be one of this ambitious youth
Wait XNUMX years
And, God willing, he will raise the heads of the Arabs
Thank you…
Electronic books are better for it
More than one book in one device
Thank you. There are young people who are very ambitious and productive. But there are no governments that help creativity
Read the first verse on the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace
Indeed, how I wish there was a major Arab institution concerned with the Arab book for its transformation and seeks to publish it electronically How many beautiful Arabic books I wished to read electronically and get it quickly through the Internet, but there are no Arabic books forgotten in terms of beautiful printing and in terms of translation and in terms of development to become electronic books their owners are satisfied with placing them On the shelves and in desks, why? !!!!!
may Allah help
Sweet topic God gives you wellness
No, on the contrary, we are a generation that reads, but demands its freedom first
I read and your Lord is the most honorable
The Arab rulers (from God they deserve what they deserve) are the ones who made the Arab peoples not read ..!
So that they are like sheep, knowing nothing of the other world.!
I am very sad and painful when I see children, youth and adults in their hand, a book (XNUMX) hours in the bus .. train .. etc. because they were taught to love reading from a young age. As for the Arabs, our rulers did not intentionally care about that in our curricula
Now, at this age, it is very difficult to read books because of quick boredom and not getting used to it ..
Nation of Read Do not read..!!
Oh God, save our rulers and reward them with good on us
Anas said: The most senior companions of the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, forbade us from insulting the princes.
Abu Al-Darda 'said: The first hypocrisy of a person is to stab him in front of him.
Abu Ishaq al-Subai'i said, “The people of the people cursed their emir but forbade his good.”
Imam Al-Barbhari, may God have mercy on him, said in his well-known book Explaining the Sunnah: If you see a man calling for the Sultan, then know that he has a Sunnah, and if you see him praying for the Sultan, then know that he is the one who loves.
And he said in front of the Sunnah, Ahmad bin Hanbal: If I had a false call, I would have given it to the Sultan, because in his goodness the goodness of the parish.
Is it because we are in Egypt, we will delete your response :), we have been for 32 years praying for Mubarak, and until now we are praying for him.
The problem is that some countries, because God have mercy on them from corruption, think that all countries are like them ... My dear brother, we in Egypt spread advertisements for alcohol in our streets, fornication and permissibility spread, corruption spread until enough was enough, and our children were imprisoned only to release a beard and women were deprived of the niqab. Do not compare your country with ours. We ask God to make it a country of prosperity and safety.
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Are the rulers standing on your head with pearl so that you do not read?
Books now and sources of knowledge are endless I will not spells I said
God bless you. Your words are XNUMX% sound.
My dear brother ... do not Arab rulers bear your responsibility for reading or not ... These are our concerns for the development of ourselves ... If you seek to develop yourself and your abilities through reading, you will not wait for anyone to make you read ... Enough is enough ... If our words are to our desires ... accept my opinion on the subject matter, my dear brother
I totally agree with you :)
God loves us to read
My brother Abu Amir
Supplication alone is not sufficient ,,
Which of you asked his children to read or even supervise them ,,
We almost forgot the Arabic language ..
It means colloquial
Look for yourself and educate your children so that an educated generation emerges, not like ours
And I am sure that our bad generation is better than the next ..
With regard to the question of the owner of the subject, the Shepherd of the Sheep, about the situation of the Arab reader from electronic books,
I answer and simply say zero on the left in Kiloine
And you were safe
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A site for Enjaz Publishing Services
On the contrary, the popularity of publishing houses is very large and on the increase
But we must ask about what books are, especially since some of them distorted some of our readers' ideas
may Allah help
A nation read not read
I am a fan of traditional printed books,
The traditional book is still worthy of dignity and prestige that surpasses the electronic.
Sometimes, however, there is no harm in changing.
And reading e-books,
Especially since at times,
The latter is not available in libraries.
Thanks iPhone Islam =),
Bless you ..
I totally agree with you,
Paper reading is never equal.
Although we sometimes need electronic ...
Thank you iPhone Islam ..
May God reward you for your most wonderful effort
Glory be to God from boards and stones, then paper, then electronics
God knows what it will be in the coming times
Nice and great info
I do not enjoy reading except with printed books, especially if I fall asleep with the book covering my face.
IPad and similar solutions solve this problem, which is the problem of not being able to read for a long time on a desktop or laptop
(Read the name of your Lord who created)
Thanks for bringing up the mighty topic. I think the Arabs are not interested
books
Paper books to read, let alone electronic books !!!
I hope it increases awareness of interest in culture
Thanks for bringing the topic up
Ibn Muhammad sincerity.
The case of the Arab reader with electronic books is the same as with printed books, I think and God knows best
I hope that it will increase awareness of interest in culture, as I, a wali of my generation, are unaware of the importance of reading
Nice and great info
I used to think of the most popular and sought-after printed books. The opposite is shown in this article.
I do not enjoy reading except with printed books. Especially if I fell asleep. I sleep with the book covering my face.
It is a nice thing to make technology help and motivate us to read by providing these books electronically on our computers and handheld devices.
I hope that it will increase awareness of interest in culture, as I am a governor of my generation who does not understand its importance
Continuous development
And fast
People are forced to learn
And reading
When will publishing houses be prepared to keep up?
Developments
There was a turnout of people
To develop and read
Wish you all the best
Go back in history, see who was the reason for this, and understand the point of my words
You mean, on one of the Abbasid caliphs (not sure which caliphate) to prevent the printer from entering the Muslims, by virtue of the fact that whoever invented it is not a Muslim, ??
Electronic books have produced a revolution in books, as some schools are now using the iPad instead of books.
May God bless you with distinction that goes beyond the limits
By God, did we, his mother, not read the book of God except on Friday or in Ramadan, so why do you write other knowledge books? Something that makes the Muslim man and the Arab person in a state of loss and disorientation. We ask God for good health. Thank you, Yvonne, Islam. Happy New Year, and God made you one of the two
Thank you for the valuable information
Ok, everyone agrees on the importance of reading. Sweet, well, how do we read about the time in which everybody is busy and not empty. What is the solution ?!
Glory be to Allah
Anthropology did not know what
Nation of Read Do not read
Except from the mercy of your Lord
We are right, we can only read from the mercy of your Lord