Book Culture in Late Medieval Syria

The Ibn 'Abd Al-Hadi Library of Damascus

By:

Konrad Hirschler

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture

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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 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.

Author Biography:

Konrad Hirschler is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Universit�t Hamburg (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures) and previously held professorships of Middle Eastern History at SOAS (University of London) and Freie Universit�t Berlin. He is amongst others author of award-winning books such as A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture - The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī (EUP, 2020), Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library (EUP, 2016), The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices (EUP, 2012) and Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors (Routledge, 2006).

Release date NZ

December 31st, 2019

Author

Konrad Hirschler

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

20 B/W illustrations 79 colour illustrations

Pages

536

Series

Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture

ISBN-13

9781474451567

Product ID

29190817

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