| ISBN |
9004311513 (hbk.) |
| Author |
Liebrenz, Boris |
| Title |
Die Rifa'iya aus Damaskus : Eine Privatbibliothek im Osmanischen Syrien und ihr kulturelles Umfeld / von Boris Liebrenz |
| Publisher |
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016 |
| Physical desc. |
xvi, 421 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Islamic manuscripts and books 10 |
| Note |
CBL illustrations: p. 267, abb. 39 (Ar 3251, f. 1r). |
| Reference to CBL Ar 3162 (p. 260). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-405) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Die Bibliothek -- Die Umwelt der Rifa'iya -- Die Leser -- Schluss. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Language Note |
In German. |
| Corporate name |
Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig -- History |
| Subject |
Private libraries -- Syria -- Damascus -- History |
| Manuscripts, Arabic -- Germany -- Leipzig -- History |
| Book industries and trade -- Syria -- Damascus -- History |
| Books and reading -- Syria -- Damascus -- History |
| Marginalia -- Syria -- History |
| Damascus (Syria) -- Intellectual life |
| Damascus (Syria) -- History -- 1516-1918 |
