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Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿabd Al-Hādī
by Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿabd Al-Hādī
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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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- Edinburgh University Pres Brand
- Aug 31, 2021 Pub Date:
- 9781474451574 ISBN-13:
- 1474451578 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 9.21 in * 1.4 in * 6.14 in Dimensions:
- 2 lb Weight:
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