Konrad Hirschler (Freie Univer Professor of Middle Eastern History

Broschiertes Buch

A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture

The Library of Ibn ?Abd al-Hadi

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1106g
• ISBN-13: 9781474451574
• ISBN-10: 1474451578
• Artikelnr.: 59992441