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A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿabd Al-Hādī (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474451574)
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xIn the late medieval period, manuscripts galore circulated in Middle Eastern libraries. Yet very few book collections have come down to us as such or have left a documentary trail. This book discusses the largest private book collection of the pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East for which we have both a paper trail and a surviving corpus of the manuscripts that once sat on its shelves: the Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī Library of Damascus. The book suggests that this library was part of the owner's symbolic strategy to monumentalise a vanishing world of scholarship bound to his life, family, quarter and home city.
Author: Konrad Hirschler
ISBN-10: 1474451578
ISBN-13: 9781474451574
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2021
Pages: 624
Format: Paperback
By Konrad Hirschler
xKonrad Hirschler is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Universit舩 Hamburg (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures) and previously held professorships of Middle Eastern History at SOAS (University of London) and Freie Universit舩 Berlin. He is amongst others author of award-winning books such as A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture - The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī (EUP, 2020), Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library (EUP, 2016), The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices (EUP, 2012) and Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors (Routledge, 2006).
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