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(0)Konrad Hirschler
Author
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Shortlisted for the 2020 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern StudiesReassembles the books of a medieval Arabic library that are today dispersed around the worldSets out a new approach to the study of Arabic book culture Edits the most important Arabic medieval book listProvides a new angle on the history of ḥadīth in the late-medieval periodReconceptualises the mobility of endowed books Reproduces the entire catalogue...
Author
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
This book discusses the only known private book collection from pre-Ottoman Jerusalem for which we have a trail of documents. It belonged to an otherwise unknown resident, Burhān al-Dīn; after his death, his books were sold in a public auction and the list of objects sold has survived.This list - edited and translated in this volume - shows that a humble part-time reciter of the late 14th century had almost 300 books in his house, evidence that...
Author
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
The documents from the Ḥaram al-sharīf in Jerusalem constitute one of the most important corpora from the pre-Ottoman Middle East covering broad areas of social, political, cultural and economic history. The first documents from the Ḥaram al-sharīf in Jerusalem were discovered in the 1970s and described by Donald Little (Catalogue of the Islamic Documents, Beirut/Wiesbaden 1984). In recent years, approximately 100 new documents have been discovered...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The universal practice of selecting and excerpting, summarizing and canonizing, arranging and organizing texts and visual signs, either in carefully dedicated types of manuscripts or not, is common to all manuscript cultures. Determined by intellectual or practical needs, this process is never neutral in itself. The resulting proximity and juxtaposition of previously distant contents, challenge previous knowledge and trigger further developments....