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A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture
The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī
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Konrad Hirschler
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
In 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.
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
November 1, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9781474451598
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
624
Other:
20 black and white illustrations, 79 colour illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9781474451598
Keywords for this book
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Audience(s) for this book
College/higher education;
Creative Commons
BY-NC-ND 4.0
