Book Culture in Late Medieval Syria

The Ibn 'Abd Al-Hadi Library of Damascus

Konrad Hirschler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

536 Seiten

2019
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5156-7 (ISBN)

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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 Abd al-Hd 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.

Konrad Hirschler is Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universitat Berlin and former Professor of Middle Eastern History at SOAS (London). His research focuses on Egypt and Syria in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (c. 1200-1500). He is the author of Medieval Damascus (EUP, 2016), The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands (EUP, 2012) and Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors (Routledge, 2006).

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2020
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Zusatzinfo	20 B/W illustrations 79 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4744-5156-X / 147445156X
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-5156-7 / 9781474451567
Zustand	Neuware