| A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿabd Al-Hādī Contributor(s): Hirschler, Konrad (Author) |
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ISBN: 147445156X ISBN-13: 9781474451567 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - History | Middle East - General - Religion | Islam - History |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.4" W x 9.1" (2.65 lbs) 624 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - Middle East - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |