Die Rifa'iya aus Damaskus
Subtitle: Eine Privatbibliothek im Osmanischen Syrien und ihr kulturelles Umfeld
By: von Boris Liebrenz
Series: Islamic Manuscripts and Books -- 10; Islamic manuscripts and books -- v. 10.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: ger
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9789004311510
Subjects: History; Private libraries; Arabic Manuscripts; Book industries and trade; Intellectual life; Books and reading; Marginalia; Bibliothek; Lesekultur; Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-405) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Die Bibliothek; title: Die Umwelt der Rifa'iya; title: Die Leser; title: Schluss.