Book Culture in Late Medieval Syria : The Ibn 'Abd Al-Hadi Library of Damascus Hardback
by Konrad Hirschler
Part of the Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture series
Hardback
Description
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 'Abd al-Hadi 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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:536 pages, 20 B/W illustrations 79 colour illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/12/2019
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- ISBN:9781474451567
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:536 pages, 20 B/W illustrations 79 colour illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/12/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781474451567
