A monument to medieval Syrian book culture : : the library of Ibn 'Abd al-Hadi / / Konrad Hirschler.
This work 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.
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| Superior document: | Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 2020 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture.
Edinburgh scholarship online. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 612 pages) :; illustrations (black and white, and colour). |
| Notes: | Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. |
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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