A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture(English, Hardcover, Hirschler Konrad)

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A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture(English, Hardcover, Hirschler Konrad) is written by Hirschler Konrad and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 147445156X (ISBN 10) and 9781474451567 (ISBN 13).

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-Hadi 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.