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Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem - The Library of Burhan Al-Din (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,260
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Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem - The Library of Burhan Al-Din (Hardcover): Said Aljoumani, Konrad...

Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem - The Library of Burhan Al-Din (Hardcover)

Said Aljoumani, Konrad Hirschler

Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture

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This book discusses the only known private book collection from pre-Ottoman Jerusalem for which we have a trail of documents. It belonged to an otherwise unknown resident, Burhan al-Din; after his death, his books were sold in a public auction and the list of objects sold has survived.This list - edited and translated in this volume - shows that a humble part-time reciter of the late 14th century had almost 300 books in his house, evidence that book ownership extended beyond the elite. Based on a corpus of almost fifty documents from the Haram al-sharif collection in Jerusalem, it is also possible to get a rare insight into the social world of such an individual. Finally, the book gives a unique insight into book prices as it will make available the largest such set of data for the pre-Ottoman period.

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Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Release date: February 2023
Authors: Said Aljoumani • Konrad Hirschler
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-9206-5
Categories: Books
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LSN: 1-4744-9206-1
Barcode: 9781474492065

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