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Die Rifa'iya aus Damaskus : Eine Privatbibliothek im Osmanischen Syrien und ihr kulturelles Umfeld

Title: Die Rifa'iya aus Damaskus : Eine Privatbibliothek im Osmanischen Syrien und ihr kulturelles Umfeld / von Boris Liebrenz.
Author: Liebrenz, Boris
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Book/Text	Request in advance	Z997.2.S952 D365 2016	Off-site

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xvi, 421 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

In Die Rifāīya Boris Liebrenz explores the book culture of Ottoman Syria (16th to 19th century), using the only surviving Damascene private library of the time as a vantage point. He asks about the production and transmission of knowledge as well as the social background of the reading audience in a manuscript age. Scholarship on Arabic libraries has often focussed on the medieval period and relied nearly exclusively on literary accounts. This is the first book-length study that focuses on a single region in the Ottoman period and systematically uses the vast number of surviving manuscripts as a documentary source by means of the notes left by their readers and possessors. Thus, it sheds light on the material, juridical, and social basis of book-ownership and reading-- Provided by Publisher.

Series Statement

Islamic Manuscripts and Books ; 10

Uniform Title

Islamic manuscripts and books ; v. 10.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-405) and indexes.

Contents

Die Bibliothek -- Die Umwelt der Rifa'iya -- Die Leser -- Schluss.

ISBN

9789004311510 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004311513 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2016007897
99969985950

OCLC

ocn935690651
935690651
SCSB-5875741

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Columbia University Libraries