{"product_id":"a-monument-to-medieval-syrian-konrad-hirschler-9781474451574","title":"A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn \u0026#703;abd Al-H\u0026#257;d\u0026#299;","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Konrad Hirschler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474451578\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474451574\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Konrad Hirschler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43944266465535,"sku":"9781474451574","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_aeaf1419-7468-4153-ad81-085d0bf85a1f.jpg?v=1681502702","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-monument-to-medieval-syrian-konrad-hirschler-9781474451574","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}