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- Author: Konrad Hirschler
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN-10: 1474451578
- ISBN-13: 9781474451574
- Format: 15.6 x 23.4 x 3.6 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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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.
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- Author: Konrad Hirschler
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN-10: 1474451578
- ISBN-13: 9781474451574
- Format: 15.6 x 23.4 x 3.6 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
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.
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