Liebrenz, Boris, <br/><br/>
Die Rifa'iya aus Damaskus :  Eine Privatbibliothek im Osmanischen Syrien und ihr kulturelles Umfeld / 
von Boris Liebrenz. 
 - 1 online resource 
 - Islamic Manuscripts and Books .
 - Islamic manuscripts and books. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Die Bibliothek -- Die Umwelt der Rifa'iya -- Die Leser -- Schluss. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004314894 900431489X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016017870 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Universit�atsbibliothek Leipzig--History.<br/>Universit�atsbibliothek Leipzig.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1516-1918 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Private libraries--History.--Syria--Damascus<br/>Manuscripts, Arabic--History.--Germany--Leipzig<br/>Book industries and trade--History.--Syria--Damascus<br/>Books and reading--History.--Syria--Damascus<br/>Marginalia--History.--Syria<br/>LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Library & Information Science--Archives & Special Libraries.<br/>Book industries and trade.<br/>Books and reading.<br/>Intellectual life.<br/>Manuscripts, Arabic.<br/>Marginalia.<br/>Private libraries.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Damascus (Syria)--Intellectual life.<br/>Damascus (Syria)--History--1516-1918.<br/>Germany--Leipzig.<br/>Syria.<br/>Syria--Damascus.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Z997.2.S952 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>027/.1569144