A monument to medieval Syrian book culture: the library of Ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī / Konrad Hirschler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirschler, Konrad, author.

Contributor:

Maktabat al-Asad (Damascus, Syria).

Series:

Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1306-1344--Library.

Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad.

Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1306-1344.

Private libraries--Syria--Damascus--History.

Private libraries.

Muslim scholars--Books and reading.

Muslim scholars.

Muslim scholars--Syria--Damascus.

Manuscripts, Arabic--Syria--Damascus--Catalogs.

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Libraries.

Books and reading.

History.

Syria--Damascus.

Genre:

History.

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

x, 612 pages, 78 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color), maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Library of Ibn ʻAbd al-Hād

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"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 ʻAbd 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."-- Back cover.

"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-H�ad�i 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."-- Back cover.

Notes:

Includes an edition (in Arabic) of the fihrist (catalog) of Ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī's library, edited from the manuscript Damascus, Al-Assad National Library, 3190--Pages

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 555-573) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781474451567

147445156X

OCLC:

1124474652

Publisher Number:

99984146783