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The idea of literalism itself is a kinda late development in most societies outside of Islamicate ones. In the European world, the idea arose with the idea of plain text in the Christian Humanism movement. In the case of some places in far east asia the idea arose like around the 19th century. The idea itself only as we recognize only really existed from english Protestant Christianity. Islam had it's own version but for the most part that was not copied by anyone whereas the English kinda spread it.Pic is a good book on this.