TY - BOOK AU - Hirschler,Konrad ED - Maktabat al-Asad (Damascus, Syria). TI - A monument to medieval Syrian book culture: the library of Ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī T2 - Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture SN - 9781474451598 AV - Z997.I26 H57 2020eb PY - 2020///] CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, KW - Private libraries KW - Syria KW - Damascus KW - History KW - Muslim scholars KW - Books and reading KW - Manuscripts, Arabic KW - Catalogs KW - Bibliothèques privées KW - Syrie KW - Damas KW - Histoire KW - Savants musulmans KW - Livres et lecture KW - Manuscrits arabes KW - Catalogues KW - HISTORY KW - Medieval KW - Libraries KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 555-573) and indexes N2 - This work discusses the largest private book collection of the pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East for which we have both a paper trail and a surviving corpus of the manuscripts that once sat on its shelves: the Ibn Abd al-Hadi Library of Damascus UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvx5w8h1 ER -