A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture : The Library of Ibn ?Abd al-Hadi
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
147445156X
ISBN-13
9781474451567
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 27th, 2019
Print length
624 Pages
Weight
1,276 grams
Dimensions
24.10 x 16.30 x 4.20 cms
Product Classification:
Middle Eastern historyEarly history: c 500 to c 1450/1500Social & cultural history
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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.
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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