Prophets, Poets and Scholars : The Collections of the Middle Eastern Library of Leiden University / edited by Arnoud Vrolijk [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vrolijk, Arnoud, editor.

Series:

LUP Middle East Environmental Histories Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East libraries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Leiden University Press, [2024]

Summary:

The year 2024 marks the opening of the new Middle Eastern Library of Leiden University, a purpose-built facility to serve the needs of all those who engage in the study of the Middle East and North Africa from the dawn of history to the present day. To celebrate the occasion, more than 40 authors from Leiden and beyond have contributed to this special volume on the library's rich and multifaceted Oriental holdings. Topics range from the Ancient Near East to the material and conservational aspects of Oriental manuscripts, and the classical heritage of the Islamicate Middle East in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Persian. Other subjects include Berber languages, Jewish writerly culture in Hebrew and Aramaic, Eastern Christianity, the fascinating but often controversial world of Western Orientalism and the role of modernity in the twentieth-century Middle East. The essays and highlights are enhanced with more than 300 full-colour illustrations.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 The Ancient Near East

NINO’s Böhl Collection of Cuneiform Tablets

The Lion Gate at Hattusa on a Glass Slide

Persepolis in the Eyes of Charles Chipiez

Egyptologists and Their Books: The Egyptology Library of NINO

The Description de l’Égypte: from Napoleon to Egyptology

2 Materiality Matters

Manuscript Materials and Binding Practices: The Codex in the Middle East

Dala’il al-Khayrat or “The Waymarks of Benefits”: a Devotional Work on the Prophet Muhammad

The Stars in Leiden: Listening to the Stories of Islamic Manuscripts

Material and Textual Ties in a Yemeni Manuscript

Decorated Papers in Islamicate Manuscripts

Layers of Information in a Mamluk Manuscript

3 The Great Arabic Heritage

The Wonders of the World

An Ancient Fragment of the Qur’an

Jacobus Golius and his Arabic Manuscripts on the Exact Sciences

Manuscripts as Illustrations of a Living Medical Tradition

The Amin al-Madani Collection of Arabic Manuscripts

The Earliest Sound Recordings from Arabia

4 The Splendour of the Ottomans

Levinus Warner’s Manuscript Collection

A Natural History of the Americas and the Ottoman Economy

The Kitab-ı Cihan-Nüma printed by İbrahim Müteferrika

A Woman on a Banknote: Fatma Aliye and Women Authors in the Late Ottoman Empire

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ISBN:

94-006-0452-1

OCLC:

1460464554