How youngsters’ reading habits are evolving
Nidhal Guessoum
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A few weeks ago, the 2021 edition of “What Kids Are Reading” was published. This is an annual report that draws from data on more than 7 million youngsters in the US the largest such yearly study of reading among children from kindergarten to Grade 12. It allows educators, parents, policymakers and communicators to gauge the evolution of children’s reading habits and devise strategies to improve the trends. This year, the effect of the pandemic was an additional factor that observers wanted to analyze, in addition to the continuing tug of war between digital and print media, between fiction and non-fiction, etc.
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In this age of anxiety, anger and contestations between the West and the Islamic world, many epoch-shaping stories of intellectual exchanges between our cultures are often forgotten.
A powerful example comes from literature. Millions of Christian, Jewish and Muslim readers across the world have read that famed tale of the man stranded alone on an island: “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe, the 18th-century British pamphleteer, political activist and novelist.
Few know that in 1708, 11 years before Defoe wrote his celebrated novel, Simon Ockley, an Orientalist scholar at Cambridge University, translated and published a 12th-century Arabic novel, “Hayy ibn Yaqzan,”
In this age of anxiety, anger and contestations between the West and the Islamic world, many epoch‐shaping stories of intellectual exchanges between our cultures are often forgotten.
A powerful example comes from literature. Millions of Christian, Jewish and Muslim readers across the world have read that famed tale of the man stranded alone on an island: “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe, the 18th‐century British pamphleteer, political activist and novelist.
Few know that in 1708, 11 years before Defoe wrote his celebrated novel, Simon Ockley, an Orientalist scholar at Cambridge University, translated and published a 12th‐century Arabic novel, “Hayy ibn Yaqzan,”or “Alive, the Son of Awake,” by Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Tufayl, an Andalusian‐Arab polymath. Writing about the influence of Ibn Tufayl’s novel on Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe,” Martin Wainwright, a former Guardian editor, remarked, “Tufayl’s footprints mark the great classic.”
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