A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture

The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī

Konrad Hirschler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

624 Seiten

2019
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5156-7 (ISBN)

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In the late medieval period, manuscripts galore circulated in Middle Eastern libraries. Yet very few book collections have come down to us as such or have left a documentary trail. 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 ʿAbd al-Hādī Library of Damascus. The book suggests that this library was part of the owner’s symbolic strategy to monumentalise a vanishing world of scholarship bound to his life, family, quarter and home city.

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).

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

6. The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist: Edition

Bibliography

Index of Subjects

Index of Titles

Index of Authors

Index of Thematic Categories

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2020
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Zusatzinfo	20 black and white illustrations, 79 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	1226 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4744-5156-X / 147445156X
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-5156-7 / 9781474451567
Zustand	Neuware