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Edinburgh University Press Book Culture in Late Medieval Syria: The Ibn 'Abd Al-Hadi Library of Damascus (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture): The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī

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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.

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30 November 2019
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