Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture

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Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture is written by Konrad Hirschler and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474451594 (ISBN 10) and 9781474451598 (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-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.