Die Rifa'iya aus Damaskus : Eine Privatbibliothek im Osmanischen Syrien und ihr kulturelles Umfeld / von Boris Liebrenz.

By:

Liebrenz, Boris [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Islamic manuscripts and booksPublisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789004314894
900431489X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rifa'iya aus Damaskus.DDC classification:

027/.1569144 23

LOC classification:

Z997.2.S952

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Contents:

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

Summary: In Die Rif�a�iya 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.

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In Die Rif�a�iya 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.