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
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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
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- ISBN:9781474451567
