A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture : The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture)

Hirschler, Konrad

Edinburgh University Press（2021/08発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2021/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 624 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474451574
• DDC分類 027.1569144

Full Description

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 ?Abd al-H?d? 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

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

6. The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist: Edition

Bibliography

Index of Subjects

Index of Titles

Index of Authors

Index of Thematic Categories