A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture
Author | : Konrad Hirschler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Private libraries |
ISBN | : 9781474451581 |
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Author | : Konrad Hirschler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Private libraries |
ISBN | : 9781474451581 |
Author | : Konrad Hirschler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Manuscripts, Arabic |
ISBN | : 9781474476836 |
This work 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.
Author | : Konrad Hirschler |
Publisher | : Edinburgh Studies in Classical |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2021-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781474451574 |
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 ʿAbd al-Hādī Library of Damascus.
Author | : Konrad Hirschler |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2011-12-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0748654216 |
Winner of the 2012 BRISMES book prize. How the written text became accessible to wider audiences in medieval Egypt and Syria. Medieval Islamic societies belonged to the most bookish cultures of their period. Using a wide variety of documentary, narrative and normative sources, Konrad Hirschler explores the growth of reading audiences in a pre-print culture.The uses of the written word grew significantly in Egypt and Syria between the 11th and the 15th centuries, and more groups within society started to participate in individual and communal reading acts. New audiences in reading sessions, school curricula, increasing numbers of endowed libraries and the appearance of popular written literature all bear witness to the profound transformation of cultural practices and their social contexts.
Author | : Hirschler Konrad Hirschler |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2016-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474408796 |
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 edits its catalogue. This catalogue shows that even book collections attached to Sunni religious institutions could hold rather unexpected titles, such as stories from the 1001 Nights, manuals for traders, medical handbooks, Shiite prayers, love poetry and texts extolling wine consumption. At the same time this library catalogue decisively expands our knowledge of how the books were spatially organised on the bookshelves of such a large medieval library. With over 2,000 entries this catalogue is essential reading for anybody interested in the cultural and intellectual history of Arabic societies. Setting the Ashrafiya catalogue into a comparative perspective with contemporaneous libraries on the British Isles this book opens new perspectives for the study of medieval libraries.
Author | : Ami Ayalon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2016-09-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107149444 |
Ayalon explores the birth of Arab printing, publishing, dissemination methods, and mass readership during the formative phase from 1800 to 1914.
Author | : Arezou Azad |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199687056 |
Afghanistan has played a crucial role in shaping the history of Islam. This book provides the first in-depth study of the sacred sites and landscape of medieval Balkh, in today's northern Afghanistan, in the five centuries from the Islamic conquests of the eighth century to the arrival of the Mongols in the thirteenth century.
Author | : Konrad Hirschler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Books and reading |
ISBN | : 9780748677344 |
This title discusses the history of reading in the high and late medieval period in the Middle East in depth. It offers a detailed and wide-ranging analysis of the period, exploring the key themes of literacy, orality and aurality.
Author | : L.W.C. van Lit |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2019-10-29 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9004400354 |
Working with manuscripts has become a digital affair. But, are there downsides to digital photos? And how can you take advantage of the incredible computing power you have literally at your fingertips? Cornelis van Lit explains in detail what happens when manuscript studies meets digital humanities. In Among Digitized Manuscripts you will learn why it is important to include a note on the photo quality in your codicological description, how to draw, collect, and publish glyphs of paleographic interest, what standards (such as TEI and IIIF) to abide by when transcribing a text, how to write custom software for image recognition, and much more. The leading principle is that learning a little about computers will already be of great benefit.
Author | : Sara Verskin |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2020-04-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 311059658X |
Barren Women is the first scholarly book to explore the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world. Through an examination of legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching, Sara Verskin illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions; legal theories pertaining to marriage, divorce, and inheritance; and scientific theories of reproduction contoured the intellectual and social landscape infertile women had to navigate. In so doing, she highlights underappreciated vulnerabilities and opportunities for women’s autonomy within the system of Islamic family law, and explores the diverse marketplace of medical ideas in the medieval world and the perceived connection between women’s health practices and religious heterodoxy. Featuring copious translations of primary sources and minimal theoretical jargon, Barren Women provides a multidimensional perspective on the experience of infertility, while also enhancing our understanding of institutions and modes of thought which played significant roles in shaping women’s lives more broadly. This monograph has been awarded the annual BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World.