Konrad Hirschler

A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture

The Library of Ibn ?Abd Al-H?D?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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-H?d? Library of Damascus.

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Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 234mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 1106g
• ISBN-13: 9781474451574
• ISBN-10: 1474451578
• Artikelnr.: 59992441

Autorenporträt

Konrad Hirschler is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Universität Hamburg (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures) and previously held professorships of Middle Eastern History at SOAS (University of London) and Freie Universität Berlin. He is amongst others author of award-winning books such as A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture - The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī (EUP, 2020), Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library (EUP, 2016), The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices (EUP, 2012) and Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors (Routledge, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

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
Abd al-Hadi Collection; 5. The Ibn
Abd al-Hadi fihrist: Title Identification; 6. The Ibn
Abd al-Hadi fihrist: Edition; Bibliography; Index of Subjects; Index of Titles; Index of Authors; Index of Thematic Categories.