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Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library: The Ashrafiya Library Catalogue
Konrad Hirschler
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Description for Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library: The Ashrafiya Library Catalogue
Electronic book text. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture E. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSBB; GL; HBJF1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Winner of the 2017 MEM Best Book Prize The written text was a pervasive feature of cultural practices in the medieval Middle East. At the heart of book circulation stood libraries that experienced a rapid expansion from the twelfth century onwards. While the existence of these libraries is well known our knowledge of their content and structure has been very limited as hardly any medieval Arabic catalogues have been preserved. This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation - the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of Damascus - and ... Read more
Winner of the 2017 MEM Best Book Prize The written text was a pervasive feature of cultural practices in the medieval Middle East. At the heart of book circulation stood libraries that experienced a rapid expansion from the twelfth century onwards. While the existence of these libraries is well known our knowledge of their content and structure has been very limited as hardly any medieval Arabic catalogues have been preserved. This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation - the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of Damascus - and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture E
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474426398
SKU
V9781474426398
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About Konrad Hirschler
Konrad Hirschler is Professor of History of Near and Middle East at Freie Universitat Berlin.
Reviews for Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library: The Ashrafiya Library Catalogue
Hirschler's analysis of the catalogue is painstaking and impressively thorough. It offers significant new understandings of many facets of book culture and libraries as institutions in medieval Damascus. Yet, this is not all Hirschler offers. He also includes an edition of the catalogue text and a meticulously annotated translation. Hirschler's work is a significant and, we anticipate, a long-lasting contribution ... Read more