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A monument to medieval Syrian book culture: the library of Ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hirschler, Konrad (Author)
Corporate Authors: JSTOR (Organization), Maktabat al-Asad (Damascus, Syria)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Series:Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture.
Subjects:
Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, > approximately 1306-1344 > Library.
Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, > approximately 1306-1344.
Private libraries > Syria > Damascus > History.
Muslim scholars > Books and reading.
Muslim scholars > Syria > Damascus.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Syria > Damascus > Catalogs.
HISTORY / Medieval.
Muslim scholars.
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Libraries.
Private libraries.
Syria > Damascus.
Electronic books.
Catalogs.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 612 pages, 78 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and color), maps, facsimiles.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 555-573) and indexes.
ISBN:9781474451598
1474451594
9781474476836
147447683X