A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ??Abd al-H?üd?½ (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture)
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN13:
9781474451567
$135.62
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.
- | Author: Konrad Hirschler
- | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- | Publication Date: November 27, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 624 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 147445156X
- | ISBN-13: 9781474451567
- Author:
- Konrad Hirschler
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:
- November 27, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 624 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 147445156X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781474451567