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Book Culture in Late Medieval Syria - The Ibn 'Abd Al-Hadi Library of Damascus (Hardcover)
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Book Culture in Late Medieval Syria - The Ibn 'Abd Al-Hadi Library of Damascus (Hardcover)
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
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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-Hadi 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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