A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture : : The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī / / Konrad Hirschler.
Shortlisted for the 2020 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern StudiesReassembles the books of a medieval Arabic library that are today dispersed around the worldSets out a new approach to the study of Arabic book culture Edits the most important Arabic medieval book listPro...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (624 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations 79 colour illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Setting the Scene: The World of a Late Medieval Middling Scholar
- 2 Monumentalising the Past
- 3 Binding Matters – From Stand-alone Booklet to Monumental Composite Manuscript
- 4 Conclusion: The After-life of the Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī Collection
- 5 The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist: Title Identification. Part I
- 5 The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist: Title Identification. Part II
- 6 The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist: Edition
- Bibliography Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Titles
- Index of Authors
- Index of Thematic Categories
- Index of Identified Manuscripts of the Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī Corpus