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    A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī

    Posted By: arundhati
    Date: 10 Sep 2023 02:44:15
    A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī

    Konrad Hirschler, "A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī "
    English | ISBN: 1474451578 | 2021 | 624 pages | PDF | 27 MB

    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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